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
                                           

                                      March 2003                March 2002
                                      Cumulative to             Cumulative to
                                      Date - Final              Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities           813,582     489,654     993,407     559,766

Ingots And Steel For Castings          3,074       2,190       4,964       3,117
Blooms, Billets And Slabs            227,954      61,688     259,702      49,951
Structural Shapes Heavy               10,220       4,534      23,290       7,819
Plates Cut Lengths                    49,690      26,771      81,283      44,412
Plates In Coils                       11,073       5,063      19,554       6,873
Rails Standard                         2,375       1,267       1,063         631
Bars - Hot Rolled                    154,346      75,116     173,852      85,344
Bars - Light Shaped                    5,126       2,241       6,137       2,366
Bars - Cold Finished                  11,830       9,871      14,056      17,159
Tool Steel                            41,446      52,422      31,261      43,157
Standard Pipe                          2,941       4,365       2,555       4,907
Oil Country Goods                     40,033      49,498      31,321      43,449
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete       8,819       6,598      41,240      25,990
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet       6,716       5,321         700       3,543
Line Pipe - Not Specified                  0           0           0           0
Mechanical Tubing                     22,365      26,442      24,005      33,095
Pressure Tubing                        5,286       9,939      13,822      28,262
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified              778       2,919         695       2,510
Structural Pipe & Tube                 6,457       5,621       5,376       4,353
Pipe For Piling                          156         177         108          57
Wire Drawn                            24,962      24,921      20,841      21,338
Sheets Hot Rolled                     22,722      11,999      22,326      11,091
Sheets Cold Rolled                    39,570      22,753      58,065      25,578
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        80,239      42,887     108,541      56,756
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt         9,359       8,117      12,272       8,914
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           18,217      14,797      26,637      16,329
Strip - Hot Rolled                     2,106       1,106       3,957       2,096
Strip - Cold Rolled                    5,720      11,035       5,786      10,669
                                           
NOTE:   See the cover report specifically explaining the current month's preliminary
steel imports trade data or
www.census.gov/foreign-trade/Press-Release/steel_index.html.

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
April 2003 (CB-03-82)