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.
 
 
                                       August 2002             August 2001
                                       Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                       Date - Final            Date - Final
     Commodity
     Grouping                       Quantity      Value     Quantity      Value
 
Total Selected Commodities         18,845,494   7,543,122  17,958,327   7,796,483
 
Ingots And Steel For Castings          31,297      33,134      39,336      38,249
Blooms, Billets And Slabs           5,349,740   1,165,862   3,740,989     867,515
Wire Rods                           1,802,323     545,146   1,625,141     503,706
Structural Shapes Heavy               465,304     153,434     595,595     210,710
Steel Piling                           99,566      53,452     101,668      55,378
Plates Cut Lengths                    491,957     221,063     509,524     235,044
Plates In Coils                       564,226     177,188     444,286     128,840
Rails Standard                        132,267      60,204     136,464      65,286
Rails All Other                        10,010       5,077      11,091       6,690
Railroad Accessories                    9,092       6,422       8,713       5,176
Bars - Hot Rolled                     963,838     424,723     858,091     419,617
Bars - Light Shaped                   114,849      51,877     106,673      47,140
Bars - Reinforcing                    950,538     202,330   1,114,693     243,858
Bars - Cold Finished                  173,619     198,403     217,250     270,131
Tool Steel                             85,382     114,543      98,884     139,279
Standard Pipe                         682,062     322,452     725,530     332,259
Oil Country Goods                     285,678     211,493     671,379     434,636
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter       436,733     262,162     605,664     324,021
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter      159,526      87,139     194,380     118,479
Line Pipe - Not Specified              78,418      27,919      60,938      27,168
Mechanical Tubing                     331,584     264,809     315,956     267,242
Pressure Tubing                        66,404     102,276      45,169      53,005
Stainless Pipe & Tubing                50,829     184,354      56,496     229,434
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified            14,038      20,072      15,832      24,155
Structural Pipe & Tube                241,577     121,481     296,107     138,751
Pipe For Piling                        11,932       5,020       6,477       2,655
Wire Drawn                            462,077     367,665     428,355     375,454
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                   1,840,691     523,404   1,443,146     400,827
Sheets Cold Rolled                  1,031,489     539,779   1,751,230     772,130
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      1,093,983     534,951     840,811     406,329
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        101,209      52,002     108,417      55,756
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat       193,068     120,211     153,339      98,382
Sheets & Strip - Electrical            43,396      28,620      70,683      48,819
Strip - Hot Rolled                     57,615      23,107      40,832      19,423
Strip - Cold Rolled                    93,777     150,405     101,135     181,256
 
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."