Not Seasonally Adjusted
 
          Exhibit 2. U.S. Imports For Consumption of Steel Products:
                                (Census Basis)
 
            Quantity in metric tons/value In thousands of dollars.
                Details may not equal totals due to rounding.
 
                                     June 2002               June 2001
                                     Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                     Date - Final            Date - Final 
   Commodity
   Grouping                       Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
 
Total Selected Commodities       13,532,607   5,425,056  13,054,852   5,751,938
 
Ingots And Steel For Castings        26,183      27,369      26,230      26,492
Blooms, Billets And Slabs         3,763,360     798,464   2,460,514     581,300
Wire Rods                         1,382,172     414,849   1,155,359     363,472
Structural Shapes Heavy             350,692     115,752     436,652     154,312
Steel Piling                         72,270      38,663      83,096      44,812
Plates Cut Lengths                  373,145     167,974     366,456     173,307
Plates In Coils                     395,535     120,163     360,076     102,229
Rails Standard                      110,990      50,860     107,243      51,691
Rails All Other                       6,751       3,655       8,984       5,093
Railroad Accessories                  6,377       4,420       6,969       4,152
Bars - Hot Rolled                   703,380     314,090     632,831     314,356
Bars - Light Shaped                  88,982      37,881      77,531      35,185
Bars - Reinforcing                  660,313     136,198     773,372     170,109
Bars - Cold Finished                131,528     152,104     165,422     207,863
Tool Steel                           62,737      83,727      77,383     109,477
Standard Pipe                       504,442     237,193     535,606     249,623
Oil Country Goods                   213,244     160,790     523,424     328,761
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter     351,335     209,024     402,448     211,796
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter    107,551      58,697     144,719      87,823
Line Pipe - Not Specified            39,285      13,376      41,964      16,623
Mechanical Tubing                   231,971     190,768     236,024     204,035
Pressure Tubing                      49,396      79,435      28,998      32,697
Stainless Pipe & Tubing              37,759     138,856      38,591     153,381
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified          10,625      14,823      11,100      16,505
Structural Pipe & Tube              181,130      89,088     224,267     106,004
Pipe For Piling                      10,870       4,625       4,101       1,791
Wire Drawn                          338,156     270,257     319,341     282,608
Black Plate                          57,395      27,882      69,133      39,976
Tin Plate                           151,941      84,026     160,655      95,920
Tin Free Steel                       57,479      34,357      78,019      52,178
Sheets Hot Rolled                 1,189,996     324,104   1,217,873     335,612
Sheets Cold Rolled                  746,261     381,618   1,283,596     577,826
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      763,233     367,620     630,718     304,591
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       78,351      40,165      87,230      43,629
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat     127,833      79,972     113,282      72,658
Sheets & Strip - Electrical          35,504      23,127      56,690      39,110
Strip - Hot Rolled                   44,403      17,204      32,081      15,559
Strip - Cold Rolled                  70,032     111,884      76,873     139,384
 
CONTACT: For more information, contact Haydn R. Mearkle (301-763-2246) or Nick
         Orsini (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U. S. Census Bureau.
 
NOTE:  For information on more detailed data available, please see record
       titled "MORE DETAILED FOREIGN TRADE DATA  AVAILABLE."