Not Seasonally Adjusted
 
          Exhibit 2c. U.S. Imports For Consumption of Carbon (Non-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         13,694,777   4,395,511  12,983,951   4,479,103
 
Ingots And Steel For Castings           3,234       4,642       3,641       5,326
Blooms, Billets And Slabs           3,898,014     687,206   2,645,369     481,266
Wire Rods                           1,578,544     434,382   1,357,609     374,972
Structural Shapes Heavy               343,472     110,403     424,494     147,681
Steel Piling                           84,245      45,077      93,525      50,524
Plates Cut Lengths                    252,782      80,094     293,688      87,865
Plates In Coils                       408,014     111,320     341,029      84,639
Rails Standard                        128,698      57,978     122,741      58,515
Rails All Other                         8,928       4,543      10,192       6,142
Railroad Accessories                    7,808       5,738       7,737       4,590
Bars - Hot Rolled                     434,108     159,887     336,931     128,772
Bars - Light Shaped                    81,345      26,963      78,644      26,286
Bars - Reinforcing                    844,540     177,221     946,328     207,175
Bars - Cold Finished                   91,891      60,147      98,180      67,644
Standard Pipe                         588,094     267,152     613,408     275,849
Oil Country Goods                     182,354      97,015     433,549     199,277
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter       294,835     173,752     462,787     241,045
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter      128,005      68,127     162,842      97,432
Line Pipe - Not Specified              47,975      16,633      47,492      18,742
Mechanical Tubing                     227,810     146,181     196,694     138,469
Pressure Tubing                        26,166      22,815      18,593      17,146
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified             9,976      11,104      11,886      15,438
Structural Pipe & Tube                199,166      94,499     248,998     114,727
Pipe For Piling                        11,067       4,632       5,516       2,300
Wire Drawn                            325,460     210,723     310,038     218,379
Black Plate                            62,592      31,274      77,532      44,058
Tin Plate                             166,287      92,490     195,722     115,933
Tin Free Steel                         65,793      39,168      88,126      58,149
Sheets Hot Rolled                   1,498,295     400,908   1,254,757     327,778
Sheets Cold Rolled                    669,618     225,677   1,209,226     387,890
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        710,064     334,304     580,069     272,373
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt         67,302      28,566      80,404      37,080
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat       151,814      96,076     136,537      87,842
Strip - Hot Rolled                     45,497      16,862      33,261      14,562
Strip - Cold Rolled                    50,987      51,956      56,409      63,233
 
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."