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 December 2002 December 2001 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 3,637,756 2,087,156 3,512,272 2,201,472 Ingots And Steel For Castings 11,191 7,880 25,555 15,070 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 949,995 210,996 654,555 147,255 Structural Shapes Heavy 85,118 30,522 158,003 53,478 Plates Cut Lengths 228,075 118,347 243,774 146,387 Plates In Coils 112,959 42,716 89,937 32,923 Rails Standard 3,470 2,225 2,442 1,460 Bars - Hot Rolled 662,950 318,689 663,944 340,042 Bars - Light Shaped 22,092 9,131 17,799 6,712 Bars - Cold Finished 43,256 49,139 77,742 79,313 Tool Steel 141,100 183,654 141,585 196,482 Standard Pipe 11,863 19,816 12,056 18,166 Oil Country Goods 136,941 167,686 248,352 284,487 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 179,109 123,752 95,023 62,593 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 2,346 6,307 15,084 14,028 Line Pipe - Not Specified 0 0 0 0 Mechanical Tubing 99,510 132,525 121,494 150,174 Pressure Tubing 48,769 97,214 36,217 55,842 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 4,773 13,085 2,709 10,034 Structural Pipe & Tube 28,425 23,181 12,776 11,625 Pipe For Piling 544 289 3,835 2,194 Wire Drawn 103,504 98,910 79,499 84,577 Sheets Hot Rolled 102,341 45,422 86,091 43,729 Sheets Cold Rolled 142,037 69,130 261,819 128,662 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 379,305 194,950 292,180 154,430 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 43,734 32,761 37,844 26,906 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 64,304 44,010 99,162 67,982 Strip - Hot Rolled 7,727 4,272 5,798 3,959 Strip - Cold Rolled 22,317 40,548 26,996 62,961 CONTACT: For more information, contact Haydn R. Mearkle (301-763-2246) or Nick Orsini (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau. SOURCE: U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary January 2003 (CB-03-39)