Not Seasonally Adjusted
           Exhibit 2C:  U.S. Imports for Consumption of Carbon (Non-Alloy)
                              Products:  (Census Basis)
                                           
               Quantity in metric tons/ value in thousands of dollars.
                    Details may not equal totals due to rounding
                                           

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

Total Selected Commodities         6,205,995   2,474,478   7,690,421   2,433,045

Ingots And Steel For Castings             28          34       3,068       4,530
Blooms, Billets And Slabs          1,172,117     287,719   2,134,137     344,145
Wire Rods                            671,985     191,784     828,286     229,229
Structural Shapes Heavy              126,710      43,191     188,640      59,637
Steel Piling                          25,022      14,003      42,695      22,559
Plates Cut Lengths                   126,096      41,245     197,625      61,930
Plates In Coils                      179,877      57,546     207,671      53,719
Rails Standard                        62,149      29,433      73,649      33,318
Rails All Other                        5,582       2,732       3,788       2,088
Railroad Accessories                   3,865       2,280       3,032       2,121
Bars - Hot Rolled                    246,929     105,026     236,792      87,624
Bars - Light Shaped                   46,557      21,257      48,527      15,221
Bars - Reinforcing                   241,987      58,999     490,992      99,679
Bars - Cold Finished                  51,538      34,432      55,295      36,973
Standard Pipe                        289,909     144,620     351,471     156,470
Oil Country Goods                    114,812      62,011      98,390      52,914
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete     126,401      69,462     209,044     118,366
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet      87,735      46,418      70,761      35,648
Line Pipe - Not Specified             43,164      16,225      19,740       7,256
Mechanical Tubing                    127,663      88,673     114,755      75,591
Pressure Tubing                       11,866       9,893      14,767      13,598
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified            4,312       5,478       5,816       6,354
Structural Pipe & Tube               128,198      62,199     113,873      50,684
Pipe For Piling                        1,404         870       8,037       3,468
Wire Drawn                           197,422     127,743     174,942     114,789
Black Plate                           18,127      11,836      47,056      21,361
Tin Plate                             86,348      51,733     123,902      68,546
Tin Free Steel                        26,318      15,626      45,305      27,290
Sheets Hot Rolled                    864,928     283,483     720,163     181,735
Sheets Cold Rolled                   381,963     160,895     447,442     141,124
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped       542,008     290,173     415,187     189,458
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        30,603      15,350      46,844      19,807
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat      104,107      77,568      94,480      56,825
Strip - Hot Rolled                    27,597      11,615      25,076       9,322
Strip - Cold Rolled                   30,664      32,928      29,170      29,670
                                           
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
May 2003 (CB-03-101)