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
                                           

                                      August 2004               August 2003
                                      Cumulative to             Cumulative to
                                      Date - Final              Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities        17,246,712   9,138,066  11,590,834   4,701,242

Ingots And Steel For Castings            636       1,774       6,954       2,160
Blooms, Billets And Slabs          3,618,313   1,301,686   2,209,470     548,934
Wire Rods                          2,236,856     956,136   1,259,466     369,217
Structural Shapes Heavy              333,631     164,562     242,454      90,244
Steel Piling                          84,676      51,960      56,687      31,727
Plates Cut Lengths                   324,187     169,755     208,842      68,987
Plates In Coils                      490,132     242,387     283,993      90,967
Rails Standard                       108,928      54,299      90,652      42,151
Rails All Other                       13,154       8,482      11,797       6,066
Railroad Accessories                   5,105       3,438       6,212       3,821
Bars - Hot Rolled                    549,220     301,629     515,117     215,784
Bars - Light Shaped                  130,629      72,054      98,360      43,003
Bars - Reinforcing                 1,218,791     581,231     595,974     161,445
Bars - Cold Finished                 115,934     107,682      98,801      66,640
Standard Pipe                        794,280     530,338     594,471     297,067
Oil Country Goods                    431,014     292,512     294,593     154,468
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete     165,626      96,993     240,196     139,115
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet     186,234     116,095     210,372     124,369
Line Pipe - Not Specified            129,370      63,820     115,976      49,555
Mechanical Tubing                    296,741     269,294     249,379     171,909
Pressure Tubing                       42,971      37,004      29,009      21,420
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified            6,590      12,428       8,774      11,454
Structural Pipe & Tube               310,339     246,508     239,929     117,423
Pipe For Piling                        4,982       3,474       6,447       3,522
Wire Drawn                           480,933     383,393     377,758     246,828
Black Plate                           35,565      22,936      31,106      21,507
Tin Plate                            198,982     126,984     186,388     113,130
Tin Free Steel                        64,108      44,581      48,771      29,904
Sheets Hot Rolled                  2,159,697   1,022,726   1,442,934     466,515
Sheets Cold Rolled                   955,909     554,378     600,237     255,434
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped     1,351,668     968,265     843,828     468,162
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        45,624      28,173      66,148      32,377
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat      234,890     194,051     200,357     146,822
Strip - Hot Rolled                    60,054      34,267      60,261      24,794
Strip - Cold Rolled                   60,943      72,773      59,122      64,319
                                           
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 Nick Orsini (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade
Division, U.S. Census Bureau.

SOURCE:  U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary
September 2004 (CB-04-184)