Not Seasonally Adjusted
 
       Exhibit 2a. U.S. Imports For Consumption of Alloy Steel Products:
                                  (Census Basis)
 
             Quantity in metric tons/value In thousands of dollars.
                 Details may not equal totals due to rounding.
 
 
                                      July 2002               July 2001
                                      Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                      Date - Final            Date - Final
    Commodity
    Grouping                        Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
 
Total Selected Commodities          2,107,902   1,202,055   1,878,456   1,277,951
 
Ingots And Steel For Castings           7,498       5,173      13,152       7,942
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             544,324     106,556     236,215      62,040
Structural Shapes Heavy                52,540      18,421      81,907      28,198
Plates Cut Lengths                    145,880      75,069     121,568      80,756
Plates In Coils                        59,627      20,922      50,032      17,962
Rails Standard                          2,453       1,677       2,110       1,174
Bars - Hot Rolled                     395,090     189,755     385,517     200,792
Bars - Light Shaped                    13,499       5,784       7,414       3,006
Bars - Cold Finished                   25,322      31,390      45,849      46,695
Tool Steel                             74,292     100,466      87,997     125,719
Standard Pipe                           7,269      13,538       8,314      12,057
Oil Country Goods                      79,794      95,133     166,721     187,078
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter        93,250      57,797      30,992      18,138
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter          882       4,367       7,594       7,173
Line Pipe - Not Specified                 (-)         (-)         (-)         (-)
Mechanical Tubing                      59,993      83,509      79,010      96,437
Pressure Tubing                        33,233      69,137      17,999      25,119
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified             2,394       6,509       1,253       4,422
Structural Pipe & Tube                 14,525      11,671       6,387       6,003
Pipe For Piling                           378         193         310         105
Wire Drawn                             57,742      55,996      45,852      49,317
Sheets Hot Rolled                      54,750      24,675      45,346      23,810
Sheets Cold Rolled                     79,747      37,427     173,125      86,003
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        224,352     117,781     159,737      85,079
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt         21,554      17,099      20,919      13,977
Sheets & Strip - Electrical            39,786      26,126      62,872      43,539
Strip - Hot Rolled                      5,433       2,898       3,023       2,093
Strip - Cold Rolled                    12,295      22,985      17,242      43,319
 
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."