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.
 
                                        August 2002              August 2001
                                        Cumulative To            Cumulative To
                                        Date - Final             Date - Final
     Commodity
     Grouping                       Quantity      Value      Quantity     Value
 
Total Selected Commodities         15,817,859   5,136,894  15,144,195   5,198,826
 
Ingots And Steel For Castings           3,306       4,675       6,849       8,032
Blooms, Billets And Slabs           4,516,160     828,144   3,208,749     585,716
Wire Rods                           1,768,279     490,463   1,588,447     436,340
Structural Shapes Heavy               407,925     130,071     493,741     172,220
Steel Piling                           99,566      53,452     101,668      55,378
Plates Cut Lengths                    304,061      95,833     345,252     103,631
Plates In Coils                       476,070     132,700     377,993      94,365
Rails Standard                        129,254      58,223     134,237      64,021
Rails All Other                        10,010       5,077      11,091       6,690
Railroad Accessories                    9,092       6,422       8,713       5,176
Bars - Hot Rolled                     507,874     186,384     396,614     150,538
Bars - Light Shaped                    92,742      30,587      92,090      30,439
Bars - Reinforcing                    950,538     202,330   1,114,693     243,858
Bars - Cold Finished                  103,888      67,695     111,754      76,932
Standard Pipe                         674,023     307,724     716,750     319,394
Oil Country Goods                     196,086     104,300     487,933     228,326
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter       327,810     191,854     570,747     303,181
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter      158,635      82,719     181,718     108,064
Line Pipe - Not Specified              78,418      27,919      60,938      27,168
Mechanical Tubing                     263,509     170,709     226,601     158,361
Pressure Tubing                        29,794      26,166      23,482      22,111
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified            11,222      12,420      14,184      18,238
Structural Pipe & Tube                224,734     107,844     288,366     131,154
Pipe For Piling                        11,554       4,827       6,167       2,550
Wire Drawn                            375,008     242,533     355,611     248,497
Black Plate                            68,319      34,730      87,841      48,998
Tin Plate                             182,294     101,833     226,327     132,869
Tin Free Steel                         74,788      44,382     103,885      67,815
Sheets Hot Rolled                   1,762,848     483,171   1,380,262     360,654
Sheets Cold Rolled                    782,977     268,890   1,423,278     453,465
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        837,202     400,668     659,238     309,489
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt         76,839      32,866      83,962      38,856
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat       193,068     120,211     153,339      98,382
Strip - Hot Rolled                     51,815      19,641      37,166      16,240
Strip - Cold Rolled                    58,149      59,434      64,512      71,678
 
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."