Provided by MZ Technologies
 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 

 
FORM 6-K
 
Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
 
For the month of November, 2009

Commission File Number 1-14732
 

 
COMPANHIA SIDERÚRGICA NACIONAL
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 

National Steel Company
(Translation of Registrant's name into English)
 

Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima 3400, 20º andar
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
04538-132
(Address of principal executive office)
 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports
under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F. 

Form 20-F ___X___ Form 40-F _______

 Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  

Yes _______ No ___X____


FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE     
CVM – BRAZILIAN SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION    Accounting Practices 
QUARTERLY INFORMATION  September 30, 2009  Adopted in Brazil 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY & OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY     

REGISTRATION WITH CVM SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS AN EVALUATION OF THE COMPANY.COMPANY MANAGEMENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INFORMATION PROVIDED. 

01.01 – IDENTIFICATION

1 - CVM CODE
00403-0
 
2 - COMPANY NAME
COMPANHIA SIDERÚRGICA NACIONAL 
3 - CNPJ (Corporate Taxpayer’s ID)
33.042.730/0001-04 
4 - NIRE (Corporate Registry ID)
33-3-00011595 

01.02 – HEAD OFFICE

1 - ADDRESS 
RUA SÃO JOSÉ, 20 GR, 1602 PARTE 
2 - DISTRICT 
CENTRO 
3 - ZIP CODE 
20010-020 
4 - CITY 
 RIO DE JANEIRO 
5 - STATE 
RJ 
6 - AREA CODE 
21 
7 - TELEPHONE 
2141-1800 
8 - TELEPHONE 
9 - TELEPHONE 
10 - TELEX 
11 - AREA CODE
21 
12 - FAX 
2141-1809 
13 - FAX 
14 – FAX 
15 - E-MAIL 
invrel@csn.com.br 

01.03 – INVESTOR RELATIONS OFFICER (Company Mailing Address)

1- NAME 
PAULO PENIDO PINTO MARQUES 
2 - ADDRESS 
AV. BRIGADEIRO FARIA LIMA, 3400 20º AND 
3 - DISTRICT 
ITAIM BIBI 
4 - ZIP CODE 
04538-132 
5 - CITY 
 SÃO PAULO 
6 - STATE 
SP 
7 - AREA CODE 
11 
8 - TELEPHONE 
3049-7100 
9 - TELEPHONE 
10 - TELEPHONE 
11 - TELEX 
12 - AREA CODE
11 
13 - FAX 
3049-7212 
14 - FAX 
 - 
15 – FAX 
16 - E-MAIL 
paulopenido@csn.com.br 

01.04 – REFERENCE AND AUDITOR INFORMATION

CURRENT YEAR  CURRENT QUARTER  PREVIOUS QUARTER 
1 - BEGINNING 2 - END  3 - QUARTER  4 - BEGINNING  5 - END  6 - QUARTER  7 - BEGINNING  8 - END 
1/1/2009 12/31/2009  7/1/2009  9/30/2009  4/1/2009  6/30/2009 
09 - INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANT
KPMG AUDITORES INDEPENDENTES 
10 - CVM CODE 
00418-9 
11. TECHNICIAN IN CHARGE
ANSELMO NEVES MACEDO 
12 – TECHNICIAN’S CPF (INDIVIDUAL TAXPAYER’S ID)
033.169.788-28 

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01.05 – CAPITAL STOCK

Number of Shares 
(In thousands)
1- CURRENT QUARTER 
9/30/2009 
2- PREVIOUS QUARTER 
6/30/2009 
3 – SAME QUARTER PREVIOUS YEAR 
9/30/2008 
Paid-in Capital 
     1 – Common  755,180  793,404  804,204 
     2 – Preferred 
     3 – Total  755,180  793,404  804,204 
Treasury Shares 
     4 – Common  26,195  34,734  34,734 
     5 – Preferred 
     6 – Total  26,195  34,734  34,734 

01.06 – COMPANY PROFILE

1 - TYPE OF COMPANY
Commercial, Industry and Other Types of Company 
2 - STATUS 
Operational 
3 - NATURE OF OWNERSHIP 
Private National 
4 - ACTIVITY CODE 
1060 – Metallurgy and Steel Industry 
5 - MAIN ACTIVITY 
MANUFACTURING, TRANSFORMATION AND TRADING OF STEEL PRODUCTS 
6 - CONSOLIDATION TYPE 
Total 
7 - TYPE OF REPORT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS 
Unqualified 

01.07 – COMPANIES NOT INCLUDED IN THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1 - ITEM  2 - CNPJ (Corporate Taxpayer’s ID) 3 - COMPANY NAME 

01.08 - CASH DIVIDENDS APPROVED AND/OR PAID DURING AND AFTER THE QUARTER

1 - ITEM  2 - EVENT  3 - APPROVAL  4 - TYPE  5 - DATE OF PAYMENT  6 - TYPE OF SHARE  7 - AMOUNT PER SHARE 

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01.09 - SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL AND CHANGES IN THE CURRENT YEAR

1 - ITEM  2 - DATE OF CHANGE  3 - CAPITAL STOCK
 (In thousands of reais)
4 - AMOUNT OF CHANGE
(In thousands of reais)
5 - NATURE OF CHANGE  7 - NUMBER OF SHARES ISSUED 
(Thousand)
8 - SHARE PRICE WHEN ISSUED 
(In reais)

01.10 - INVESTOR RELATIONS OFFICER

1 - DATE
11/4/2009 
2 - SIGNATURE 

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02.01 – BALANCE SHEET - ASSETS (in thousands of Reais)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 9/30/2009  4 -6/30/2009 
Total Assets  36,401,212  34,231,253 
1.01  Current Assets  11,310,824  8,627,663 
1.01.01  Cash and Cash Equivalents  1,320,521  100,992 
1.01.02  Receivable  3,926,316  2,600,972 
1.01.02.01  Clients  1,308,889  1,310,120 
1.01.02.01.01  Domestic Market  781,069  908,221 
1.01.02.01.02  Foreign Market  823,890  683,099 
1.01.02.01.03  Advance on Export Contracts (ACE) (53,343) (58,548)
1.01.02.01.04  Allowance for Doubtful Accounts  (242,727) (222,652)
1.01.02.02  Sundry Receivable  2,617,427  1,290,852 
1.01.02.02.01  Employees  18,596  19,853 
1.01.02.02.02  Corporate Income Tax Recoverable  54,757  48,642 
1.01.02.02.03  Deferred Income Tax  316,162  321,049 
1.01.02.02.04  Deferred Social Contribution  113,965  115,739 
1.01.02.02.05  Prepaid Income Tax  362,372  272,700 
1.01.02.02.06  Other Taxes  305,325  304,578 
1.01.02.02.07  Proposed Dividends Receivable  104,003  104,003 
1.01.02.02.08  Loans with Subsidiaries  1,297,452  194 
1.01.02.02.09  Other Receivable  44,795  104,094 
1.01.03  Inventories  2,084,054  2,642,957 
1.01.04  Other  3,979,933  3,282,742 
1.01.04.01  Marketable Securities  3,970,344  3,270,240 
1.01.04.02  Prepaid Expenses  9,589  12,502 
1.02  Noncurrent Assets  25,090,388  25,603,590 
1.02.01  Long-Term Assets  3,948,834  5,493,639 
1.02.01.01  Sundry Receivables  929,296  944,939 
1.02.01.01.02  Securities Receivable  67,550  81,976 
1.02.01.01.03  Deferred Income Tax  527,164  508,378 
1.02.01.01.04  Deferred Social Contribution  176,549  169,699 
1.02.01.01.05  Other Taxes  158,033  184,886 
1.02.01.02  Receivable from Related Parties  2,064,415  3,614,265 
1.02.01.02.01  Associated and Related Companies 
1.02.01.02.02  Subsidiaries  1,353,175  1,409,572 
1.02.01.02.03  Other Related Parties  711,240  2,204,693 
1.02.01.03  Other  955,123  934,435 
1.02.01.03.01  Judicial Deposits  776,217  763,286 
1.02.01.03.03  Prepaid Expenses  17,390  17,760 
1.02.01.03.04  Other  161,516  153,389 
1.02.02  Permanent Assets  21,141,554  20,109,951 
1.02.02.01  Investments  13,740,862  12,832,015 
1.02.02.01.01  Interest in Associated/Related Companies 

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02.01 – BALANCE SHEETS - ASSETS (in thousands of Reais)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 9/30/2009  4 - 6/30/2009 
1.02.02.01.02  Interest in Associated/Related Companies - Goodwill 
1.02.02.01.03  Interest in Subsidiaries  13,740,831  12,831,984 
1.02.02.01.04  Interest in Subsidiaries - Goodwill 
1.02.02.01.05  Other Investments  31  31 
1.02.02.02  Property, Plant and Equipment  7,281,149  7,155,867 
1.02.02.02.01  In Operation, Net  6,004,826  6,083,817 
1.02.02.02.02  In Construction  1,186,212  982,641 
1.02.02.02.03  Land  90,111  89,409 
1.02.02.03  Intangible Assets  89,552  90,482 
1.02.02.04  Deferred Charges  29,991  31,587 

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02.02 – BALANCE SHEET - LIABILITIES (in thousands of Reais)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 9/30/2009  4 -6/30/2009 
Total Liabilities  36,401,212  34,231,253 
2.01  Current Liabilities  5,245,346  5,815,025 
2.01.01  Loans and Financing  2,857,887  2,729,343 
2.01.02  Debentures  8,422  26,172 
2.01.03  Suppliers  496,274  1,240,240 
2.01.04  Taxes, Fees and Contributions  971,196  825,464 
2.01.04.01  Salaries and Social Contributions  107,595  86,020 
2.01.04.02  Taxes Payable  618,237  498,615 
2.01.04.05  Taxes Paid by Installments  245,364  240,829 
2.01.05  Dividends Payable  274,801  194,481 
2.01.06  Provisions  134,588  172,051 
2.01.06.01  Labor Contingencies  122,535  127,923 
2.01.06.02  Civil Contingencies  38,211  62,467 
2.01.06.03  Judicial Deposits  (82,883) (74,642)
2.01.06.04  Provision for Pension Fund  56,725  56,303 
2.01.07  Debts with Related Parties 
2.01.08  Other  502,178  627,274 
2.01.08.01  Accounts Payable - Subsidiaries  190,438  181,934 
2.01.08.03  Other  311,740  445,340 
2.02  Noncurrent Liabilities  24,752,174  21,425,716 
2.02.01  Long-Term Liabilities  24,752,174  21,425,716 
2.02.01.01  Loans and Financing  13,679,542  10,327,905 
2.02.01.02  Debentures  600,000  600,000 
2.02.01.03  Provisions  1,792,339  1,752,859 
2.02.01.03.01  Labor and Social Security Contingencies  26,678 
2.02.01.03.03  Tax Contingencies  3,764,891  3,701,647 
2.02.01.03.04  Environmental Contingencies  110,411  69,384 
2.02.01.03.05  Judicial Deposits  (2,082,963) (2,044,850)
2.02.01.04  Debts with Related Parties 
2.02.01.05  Advance for Future Capital Increase 
2.02.01.06  Other  8,680,293  8,744,952 
2.02.01.06.01  Accounts Payable – Subsidiaries  8,010,558  8,014,748 
2.02.01.06.02  Provision for Pension Fund  28,630  39,982 
2.02.01.06.03  Taxes Paid by Installments  491,649  542,671 
2.02.01.06.05  Other  149,456  147,551 
2.03  Deferred Income 
2.05  Shareholders’ Equity  6,403,692  6,990,512 
2.05.01  Paid-In Capital Stock  1,680,947  1,680,947 
2.05.02  Capital Reserves  30  30 
2.05.03  Revaluation Reserves 
2.05.03.01  Own Assets 

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02.02 – BALANCE SHEET - LIABILITIES (in thousands of Reais)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 9/30/2009  4 -6/30/2009 
2.05.03.02  Subsidiaries/Associated and Related Companies 
2.05.04  Profit Reserves  2,418,449  3,768,756 
2.05.04.01  Legal  336,190  336,190 
2.05.04.02  Statutory 
2.05.04.03  For Contingencies 
2.05.04.04  Unrealized Income  2,493,493  2,493,493 
2.05.04.05  Retention of Profits 
2.05.04.06  Special For Undistributed Dividends 
2.05.04.07  Other Profit Reserves  (411,234) 939,073 
2.05.04.07.01  From Investments  780,325  1,658,115 
2.05.04.07.02  Treasury Shares  (1,191,559) (719,042)
2.05.05  Equity Valuation Adjustments  (33,024) 401,412 
2.05.05.01  Securities Adjustments 
2.05.05.02  Accumulated Translation Adjustments  (33,024) 401,412 
2.05.05.03  Business Combination Adjustments 
2.05.06  Retained Earnings/ Accumulated Losses  2,337,290  1,139,367 
2.05.07  Advance for Future Capital Increase 

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03.01 – STATEMENT OF INCOME (in thousands of Reais)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 7/1/2009 to 9/30/2009  4 - 1/1/2009 to 9/30/2009  5 - 7/1/2008 to 9/30/2008  6 - 1/1/2008 to 9/30/2008 
3.01  Gross Revenue from Sales and/or Services  3,073,067  7,871,571  3,911,148  10,515,625 
3.02  Gross Revenue Deductions  (606,253) (1,662,440) (940,179) (2,633,774)
3.03  Net Revenue from Sales and/or Services  2,466,814  6,209,131  2,970,969  7,881,851 
3.04  Cost of Goods Sold and/or Services Rendered  (1,626,061) (4,184,803) (1,473,990) (4,202,442)
3.04.01  Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization  (139,361) (418,848) (230,643) (757,668)
3.04.02  Other  (1,486,700) (3,765,955) (1,243,347) (3,444,774)
3.05  Gross Income  840,753  2,024,328  1,496,979  3,679,409 
3.06  Operating Income/Expenses  540,451  1,223,451  (1,514,362) (1,329,298)
3.06.01  Selling Expenses  (123,842) (352,629) (111,606) (335,536)
3.06.01.01  Depreciation and Amortization  (1,278) (3,656) (2,081) (5,925)
3.06.01.02  Other  (122,564) (348,973) (109,525) (329,611)
3.06.02  General and Administrative  (82,447) (237,695) (81,214) (239,729)
3.06.02.01  Depreciation and Amortization  (1,857) (5,589) (3,245) (11,318)
3.06.02.02  Other  (80,590) (232,106) (77,969) (228,411)
3.06.03  Financial  (267,870) (63,186) (1,298,860) (1,323,602)
3.06.03.01  Financial Income  (350,612) (163,936) 541,819  337,761 
3.06.03.02  Financial Expenses  82,742  100,750  (1,840,679) (1,661,363)
3.06.03.02.01  Foreign Exchange and Monetary Variation, net  636,766  1,870,698  (1,471,873) (839,372)
3.06.03.02.02  Financial Expenses  (554,024) (1,769,948) (368,806) (821,991)
3.06.04  Other Operating Income  840,288  945,712  46,067  60,674 
3.06.05  Other Operating Expenses  (158,562) (388,389) (40,963) (205,986)
3.06.06  Equity Pick-Up  332,884  1,319,638  (27,786) 714,881 
3.07  Operating Income  1,381,204  3,247,779  (17,383) 2,350,111 
3.08  Non-operating Income 
3.08.01  Income 
3.08.02  Expenses 
3.09  Income before Taxes/Profit Sharing  1,381,204  3,247,779  (17,383) 2,350,111 

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03.01 – STATEMENT OF INCOME (in thousands of Reais)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 7/1/2009 to 9/30/2009  4 - 1/1/2009 to 9/30/2009  5 - 7/1/2008 to 9/30/2008  6 - 1/1/2008 to 9/30/2008 
3.10  Provision for Income and Social Contribution Taxes  (121,915) (540,619) (51,627) (605,135)
3.11  Deferred Income Tax  18,974  (96,307) 83,613  91,669 
3.11.01  Deferred Income Tax  13,898  (70,123) 59,112  62,947 
3.11.02  Deferred Social Contribution  5,076  (26,184) 24,501  28,722 
3.12  Statutory Profit Sharing/Contributions 
3.12.01  Profit Sharing 
3.12.02  Contributions 
3.13  Reversal of Interest on Shareholders’ Equity 
3.15  Income/Loss for the Period  1,278,263  2,610,853  14,603  1,836,645 
  OUTSTANDING SHARES, EX-TREASURY (in thousands) 728,985  728,985  769,470  769,470 
  EARNINGS PER SHARE (in Reais) 1.75348  3.58149  0.01898  2.38690 
  LOSS PER SHARE (in Reais)        

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04.01 – STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS – INDIRECT METHOD (in thousands of Reais)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 7/1/2009 to 9/30/2009  4 - 1/1/2009 to 9/30/2009  5 - 7/1/2008 to 9/30/2008  6 - 1/1/2008 to 9/30/2008 
4.01  Net Cash from Operating Activities  (467,825) (340,335) 1,420,394  2,910,175 
4.01.01  Cash Generated in the Operations  62,923  (249,647) 1,818,195  3,131,202 
4.01.01.01  Net Income for the Period  1,278,263  2,610,853  14,603  1,836,645 
4.01.01.02  Provision for Charges on Loans and Financing  440,070  1,361,440  176,984  451,769 
4.01.01.03  Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization  142,497  428,093  235,969  774,911 
4.01.01.04  Income from Write-off and Disposal of Assets  23,224  32,154  14,110  15,467 
4.01.01.05  Income from Corporate Interest  (332,884) (1,319,638) 27,785  (714,880)
4.01.01.06  Gain and Loss in Percentage Variation  (835,115) (828,312)
4.01.01.07  Deferred Income and Social Contribution Taxes  (18,975) 96,307  (83,613) (91,669)
4.01.01.08  Provision for Swap/Forward Operations  9,264  79,294  91,745 
4.01.01.09  Provision for Actuarial Liability  (10,930) (32,213) (36,236) (107,852)
4.01.01.10  Monetary and Exchange Variation  (735,161) (2,792,246) 1,342,336  699,088 
4.01.01.11  Provision for Contingencies  34,489  80,853  26,556  47,336 
4.01.01.12  Other Provisions  77,445  103,798  20,407  128,642 
4.01.02  Variation in Assets and Liabilities  (530,748) (90,688) (397,801) (221,027)
4.01.02.01  Accounts Receivable  (215,219) (133,266) (166,492) (275,326)
4.01.02.02  Inventories  439,029  624,305  (296,048) (174,320)
4.01.02.03  Receivables from Subsidiaries and Assoc. Companies  426,754  1,424,274  286,790  510,597 
4.01.02.04  Taxes to Offset  44,334  (48,923) (2,640) (24,873)
4.01.02.05  Prepaid Taxes  (121,402) (492,991)
4.01.02.06  Suppliers  (661,023) (986,697) 544,960  440,288 
4.01.02.07  Salaries and Social Charges  21,575  31,947  15,087  33,380 
4.01.02.08  Taxes  76,100  450,733  (439,908) (247,647)
4.01.02.09  Accounts Payable - Subsidiaries  (73,058) 56,286  (159,242) 50,480 
4.01.02.10  Contingent Liabilities  (31,879) (11,922) 86,554  246,773 
4.01.02.11  Financial Institutions – Interest Rates  (444,141) (1,035,238) 185,654  (433,243)
4.01.02.12  Financial Institutions - Swap  (9,049) (375,007) (375,007)

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04.01 – STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS – INDIRECT METHOD (in thousands of Reais)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 7/1/2009 to 9/30/2009  4 - 1/1/2009 to 9/30/2009  5 - 7/1/2008 to 9/30/2008  6 - 1/1/2008 to 9/30/2008 
4.01.02.13  Other  8,182  39,853  (77,509) 27,871 
4.01.03  Other 
4.02  Net Cash from Investment Activities  (691,307) (2,592,241) (855,880) (1,596,982)
4.02.01  Judicial Deposits  (4,671) (720,132) 1,414  (12,027)
4.02.02  Investments  (396,923) (1,021,260) (485,756) (692,126)
4.02.03  Property, Plant and Equipment  (289,713) (850,849) (336,330) (821,962)
4.02.04  Deferred Charges  (35,208) (70,867)
4.03  Net Cash from Financing Activities  3,263,768  1,812,375  75,916  (1,038,948)
4.03.01  Loans and Financing  5,349,929  6,378,808  648,739  1,882,837 
4.03.02  Receipt for share issue 
4.03.03  Debentures 
4.03.04  Financial Institutions – Principal  (735,834) (1,448,015) (573,795) (807,233)
4.03.05  Dividends and Interest on Shareholders’ Equity  (20) (1,768,111) 972  (2,114,552)
4.03.06  Treasury Shares  (1,350,307) (1,350,307)
4.04  Foreign Exchange Variation on Cash and Cash Equivalents  (185,003) (980,613)
4.05  Increase (Decrease) in Cash and Cash Equivalents  1,919,633  (2,100,814) 640,430  274,245 
4.05.01  Opening Balance of Cash and Cash Equivalents  3,371,232  7,391,679  378,930  745,115 
4.05.02  Closing Balance of Cash and Cash Equivalents  5,290,865  5,290,865  1,019,360  1,019,360 

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05.01 – STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY FROM 7/1/2009 TO 9/30/2009 (in R$ thousands)

1 - CODE  2 – DESCRIPTION  3 – CAPITAL 
STOCK 
4 – CAPITAL 
RESERVES 
5 –REVALUATION 
RESERVES 
6 – PROFIT 
RESERVES 
7 – RETAINED 
EARNINGS/ 
ACCUMULATED 
LOSSES 
8 –EQUITY 
VALUATION 
ADJUSTMENTS 
9 - TOTAL 
SHAREHOLDERS' 
EQUITY 
5.01  Opening Balance  1,680,947  30  3,768,756  1,139,367  401,412  6,990,512 
5.02  Prior Year Adjustments 
5.03  Adjusted Balance  1,680,947  30  3,768,756  1,139,367  401,412  6,990,512 
5.04  Income/Loss for the Period  1,278,263  1,278,263 
5.05  Distributions  (80,340) (80,340)
5.05.01  Dividends 
5.05.02  Interest on Shareholders’ Equity  (80,340) (80,340)
5.05.03  Other Distributions 
5.06  Profit Reserve Realization 
5.07  Equity Valuation Adjustments  (434,436) (434,436)
5.07.01  Securities Adjustments 
5.07.02  Accumulated Translation Adjustments  (434,436) (434,436)
5.07.03  Business Combination Adjustments 
5.08  Increase/Reduction in Capital 
  Recording/Realization of Capital               
5.09  Reserves 
5.10  Treasury Shares  (472,517) (472,517)
5.11  Other Capital Transactions 
5.12  Other  (877,790) (877,790)
5.12.01  Cancelation of Treasury Shares  (877,790) (877,790)
5.13  Closing Balance  1,680,947  30  2,418,449  2,337,290  (33,024) 6,403,692 

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05.02 – STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY FROM 1/1/2009 TO 9/30/2009 (in R$ thousands)

1 - CODE  2 – DESCRIPTION  3 – CAPITAL 
STOCK 
4 – CAPITAL 
RESERVES 
5 –REVALUATION 
RESERVES 
6 – PROFIT 
RESERVES 
7 – RETAINED 
EARNINGS/ 
ACCUMULATED 
LOSSES 
8 –EQUITY 
VALUATION 
ADJUSTMENTS 
9 - TOTAL 
SHAREHOLDERS' 
EQUITY 
5.01  Opening Balance  1,680,947  30  3,768,756  1,298,729  6,748,462 
5.02  Prior Year Adjustments 
5.03  Adjusted Balance  1,680,947  30  3,768,756  1,298,729  6,748,462 
5.04  Net Income/Loss for the Period  2,610,853  2,610,853 
5.05  Distributions  (273,563) (273,563)
5.05.01  Dividends 
5.05.02  Interest on Shareholders’ Equity  (273,563) (273,563)
5.05.03  Other Distributions 
5.06  Realization of Profit Reserves 
5.07  Equity Valuation Adjustments  (1,331,753) (1,331,753)
5.07.01  Securities Adjustments 
5.07.02  Accumulated Translation Adjustments  (1,331,753) (1,331,753)
5.07.03  Business Combination Adjustments 
5.08  Increase/Reduction in Capital Stock 
  Recording/Realization of Capital               
5.09  Reserves 
5.10  Treasury Shares  (472,517) (472,517)
5.11  Other Capital Transactions 
5.12  Other  (877,790) (877,790)
5.12.01  Cancelation of Treasury Shares  (877,790) (877,790)
5.13  Closing Balance  1,680,947  30  2,418,449  2,337,290  (33,024) 6,403,692 

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08.01 – CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET - ASSETS (in thousands of reais)

1- CODE  2 – DESCRIPTION  3 - 9/30/2009  4 -6/30/2009 
Total Assets  29,709,800  27,625,137 
1.01  Current Assets  14,779,689  13,519,258 
1.01.01  Cash and Cash Equivalents  1,388,701  182,004 
1.01.02  Receivable  3,124,646  2,617,068 
1.01.02.01  Clients  1,124,115  1,078,748 
1.01.02.01.01  Domestic Market  1,111,671  1,109,914 
1.01.02.01.02  Foreign Market  362,581  304,990 
1.01.02.01.03  Advance on Export Contracts (ACE) (53,343) (58,548)
1.01.02.01.04  Allowance for Doubtful Accounts  (296,794) (277,608)
1.01.02.02  Sundry Receivable  2,000,531  1,538,320 
1.01.02.02.01  Employees  19,878  21,050 
1.01.02.02.03  Income and Social Contribution Taxes to Offset  82,518  79,314 
1.01.02.02.04  Deferred Income Tax  494,658  388,182 
1.01.02.02.05  Deferred Social Contribution  176,676  139,992 
1.01.02.02.06  Prepaid Income Tax  405,731  305,712 
1.01.02.02.07  Other Taxes  490,717  476,738 
1.01.02.02.08  Proposed Dividends Receivable  66,326 
1.01.02.02.09  Other Receivable  330,353  61,006 
1.01.03  Inventories  2,726,509  3,412,724 
1.01.04  Other  7,539,833  7,307,462 
1.01.04.01  Marketable Securities  7,519,843  5,898,877 
1.01.04.02  Prepaid Expenses  19,990  24,203 
1.01.04.05  Guarantee Margin of Financial Instruments  1,384,382 
1.02  Noncurrent Assets  14,930,111  14,105,879 
1.02.01  Long-Term Assets  3,700,455  3,037,627 
1.02.01.01  Sundry Receivables  2,023,530  1,381,293 
1.02.01.01.02  Securities Receivable  261,243  298,349 
1.02.01.01.03  Deferred Income Tax  1,132,652  608,024 
1.02.01.01.04  Deferred Social Contribution  394,766  205,814 
1.02.01.01.05  Other Taxes  234,869  269,106 
1.02.01.02  Receivable from Related Parties  479,120  479,120 
1.02.01.02.01  From Associated and Related Companies 
1.02.01.02.02  From Subsidiaries  479,120  479,120 
1.02.01.02.03  From Other Related Parties 
1.02.01.03  Other  1,197,805  1,177,214 
1.02.01.03.01  Judicial Deposits  793,460  779,768 
1.02.01.03.03  Prepaid Expenses  106,997  108,826 
1.02.01.03.04  Securities 
1.02.01.03.05  Other  297,348  288,620 
1.02.02  Permanent Assets  11,229,656  11,068,252 
1.02.02.01  Investments  1,360  1,127 

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08.01 - CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET - ASSETS (in thousands of reais)

1- CODE  2- DESCRIPTION  3 - 9/30/2009  4 -6/30/2009 
1.02.02.01.01  Interest in Associated and Related Companies 
1.02.02.01.02  Interest in Subsidiaries 
1.02.02.01.03  Other Investments  1,360  1,127 
1.02.02.02  Property, Plant and Equipment  10,728,377  10,524,104 
1.02.02.02.01  In Operation, Net  8,657,043  8,792,643 
1.02.02.02.02  In Construction  1,937,822  1,597,818 
1.02.02.02.03  Land  133,512  133,643 
1.02.02.03  Intangible Assets  464,224  504,981 
1.02.02.04  Deferred Charges  35,695  38,040 

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08.02 CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET - LIABILITIES (in thousands of reais)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 9/30/2009  4 -6/30/2009 
Total Liabilities  29,709,800  27,625,137 
2.01  Current Liabilities  5,182,070  6,933,074 
2.01.01  Loans and Financing  2,351,832  2,897,792 
2.01.02  Debentures  18,255  35,279 
2.01.03  Suppliers  581,799  1,325,743 
2.01.04  Taxes, Fees and Contributions  1,286,048  1,106,517 
2.01.04.01  Salaries and Social Contributions  156,536  130,061 
2.01.04.02  Taxes Payable  844,565  714,121 
2.01.04.03  Deferred Income Tax  936 
2.01.04.04  Deferred Social Contribution  337 
2.01.04.05  Taxes Paid by Installments  283,674  262,335 
2.01.05  Dividends Payable  274,801  225,372 
2.01.06  Provisions  140,939  177,987 
2.01.06.01  Labor Contingencies  135,089  140,019 
2.01.06.02  Civil Contingencies  40,103  63,912 
2.01.06.04  Judicial Deposits  (90,978) (82,247)
2.01.06.05  Pension Fund Provision  56,725  56,303 
2.01.07  Debts with Related Parties 
2.01.08  Other  528,396  1,164,384 
2.01.08.01  Financial Instruments – Equity Swap  733,939 
2.01.08.02  Accounts payable – Subsidiaries  72,667  70,065 
2.01.08.04  Other  455,729  360,380 
2.02  Noncurrent Liabilities  18,172,944  13,764,522 
2.02.01  Long-Term Liabilities  18,172,944  13,764,522 
2.02.01.01  Loans and Financing  11,769,143  7,376,939 
2.02.01.02  Debentures  628,665  628,665 
2.02.01.03  Provisions  1,894,344  1,835,517 
2.02.01.03.01  Labor and Social Security Contingencies  71,215  83,458 
2.02.01.03.02  Civil Contingencies  17,919  17,355 
2.02.01.03.03  Tax Contingencies  3,795,295  3,722,687 
2.02.01.03.04  Environmental Contingencies  110,411  69,384 
2.02.01.03.05  Other Contingencies  54  57 
2.02.01.03.06  Judicial Deposits  (2,121,793) (2,057,424)
2.02.01.03.07  Deferred Income Tax  15,620 
2.02.01.03.08  Deferred Social Contribution  5,623 
2.02.01.04  Debts with Related Parties 
2.02.01.05  Advance for Future Capital Increase 
2.02.01.06  Other  3,880,792  3,923,401 
2.02.01.06.03  Pension Fund Provision  30,906  44,563 
2.02.01.06.04  Taxes Paid by Installments  652,042  704,340 
2.02.01.06.05  Accounts Payable – Subsidiaries  2,958,230  2,936,373 

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08.02 CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET - LIABILITIES (in thousands of reais)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 9/30/2009  4 -6/30/2009 
2.02.01.06.07  Other  239,614  238,125 
2.03  Deferred Income 
2.04  Minority Interests 
2.05  Shareholders’ Equity  6,354,786  6,927,541 
2.05.01  Paid-In Capital  1,680,947  1,680,947 
2.05.02  Capital Reserves  30  30 
2.05.03  Revaluation Reserves 
2.05.03.01  Own Assets 
2.05.03.02  Subsidiaries/Associated and Related Companies 
2.05.04  Profit Reserves  2,369,543  3,705,786 
2.05.04.01  Legal  336,190  336,190 
2.05.04.02  Statutory 
2.05.04.03  For Contingencies 
2.05.04.04  Unrealized Income  2,493,493  2,493,493 
2.05.04.05  Profit Retention 
2.05.04.06  Special For Undistributed Dividends 
2.05.04.07  Other Profit Reserves  (460,140) 876,103 
2.05.04.07.01  Investments  780,325  1,658,113 
2.05.04.07.02  Treasury Shares  (1,191,559) (719,042)
2.05.04.07.03  Unrealized Income  (48,906) (62,968)
2.05.05  Equity Valuation Adjustments  (33,024) 401,412 
2.05.05.01  Securities Adjustments 
2.05.05.02  Accumulated Translation Adjustments  (33,024) 401,412 
2.05.05.03  Business Combination Adjustments 
2.05.06  Retained Earnings/Accumulated Losses  2,337,290  1,139,366 
2.05.07  Advance for Future Capital Increase 

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09.01 CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF INCOME (in thousands of reais)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 7/1/2009 to 9/30/2009  4 - 1/1/2009 to 9/30/2009  5 - 7/1/2008 to 9/30/2008  6 - 1/1/2008 to 9/30/2008 
3.01  Gross Revenue from Sales and/or Services  3,714,446  10,193,677  5,078,946  13,646,010 
3.02  Deductions from Gross Revenue  (728,676) (2,272,222) (1,050,044) (3,032,170)
3.03  Net Revenue from Sales and/or Services  2,985,770  7,921,455  4,028,902  10,613,840 
3.04  Cost of Goods Sold and/or Services Rendered  (1,809,024) (5,107,048) (1,911,356) (5,567,145)
3.04.01  Depreciation and Amortization  (188,161) (557,754) (275,417) (883,752)
3.04.02  Other  (1,620,863) (4,549,294) (1,635,939) (4,683,393)
3.05  Gross Profit  1,176,746  2,814,407  2,117,546  5,046,695 
3.06  Operating Income/Expenses  165,970  (409,358) (2,137,614) (2,623,975)
3.06.01  Selling expenses  (259,513) (644,031) (193,609) (529,222)
3.06.01.01  Depreciation and Amortization  (1,604) (4,570) (2,477) (7,118)
3.06.01.02  Other  (257,909) (639,461) (191,132) (522,104)
3.06.02  General and Administrative  (120,721) (348,486) (121,983) (364,892)
3.06.02.01  Depreciation and Amortization  (6,131) (18,302) (9,907) (31,531)
3.06.02.02  Other  (114,590) (330,184) (112,076) (333,361)
3.06.03  Financial  (115,214) 49,803  (1,715,000) (1,385,828)
3.06.03.01  Financial Income  299,527  1,167,609  (90,503) 400,008 
3.06.03.02  Financial Expenses  (414,741) (1,117,806) (1,624,497) (1,785,836)
3.06.03.02.01  Foreign Exchange and Monetary Variation, Net  520,842  884,088  (920,749) (509,583)
3.06.03.02.02  Financial Expenses  (935,583) (2,001,894) (703,748) (1,276,253)
3.06.04  Other Operating Income  863,167  1,006,944  53,412  113,844 
3.06.05  Other Operating Expenses  (201,745) (473,588) (102,590) (284,253)
3.06.06  Equity Pick-Up  (4) (57,844) (173,624)
3.07  Operating Income  1,342,716  2,405,049  (20,068) 2,422,720 

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09.01 CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF INCOME (in thousands of reais)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 7/1/2009 to 9/30/2009  4 - 1/1/2009 to 9/30/2009  5 - 7/1/2008 to 9/30/2008  6 - 1/1/2008 to 9/30/2008 
3.08  Non-Operating Income 
3.08.01  Income 
3.08.02  Expenses 
3.09  Income before Taxes/Profit Sharing  1,342,716  2,405,049  (20,068) 2,422,720 
3.10  Provision for Income and Social Contribution Taxes  (213,520) (790,943) (105,982) (760,601)
3.11  Deferred Income Tax  20,467  239,124  165,680  175,770 
3.11.01  Deferred Income Tax  16,274  177,719  118,507  123,402 
3.11.02  Deferred Social Contribution  4,193  61,405  47,173  52,368 
3.12  Statutory Profit Sharing/Contributions 
3.12.01  Profit Sharing 
3.12.02  Contributions 
3.13  Reversal of Interest on Shareholders’ Equity 
3.14  Minority Interest 
3.15  Income/Loss for the Period  1,149,663  1,853,230  39,630  1,837,889 
  OUTSTANDING SHARES, EX-TREASURY (in thousands) 728,985  728,985  769,470  769,470 
  EARNINGS PER SHARE (in reais) 1.57707  2.54221  0.05150  2.38851 
  LOSS PER SHARE (in reais)        

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10.01 – CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS – INDIRECT METHOD (in thousands of Reais)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 7/1/2009 to 9/30/2009  4 - 1/1/2009 to 9/30/2009  5 - 7/1/2008 to 9/30/2008  6 - 1/1/2008 to 9/30/2008 
4.01  Net Cash from Operating Activities  308,079  (372,137) 1,243,968  2,872,507 
4.01.01  Cash Generated in the Operations  956,364  900,278  2,226,120  4,016,462 
4.01.01.01  Net Income for the Period  1,149,662  1,853,231  39,632  1,837,889 
4.01.01.02  Provision for Charges on Loans and Financing  235,278  782,355  183,473  500,339 
4.01.01.03  Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization  195,896  580,626  287,802  922,402 
4.01.01.04  Income from Write-Off and Disposal of Assets  24,618  33,665  19,456  27,523 
4.01.01.05  Income from Corporate Interest  57,867  173,624 
4.01.01.06  Gains and Losses in Percentage Variation  (835,115) (835,115)
4.01.01.07  Deferred Income and Social Contribution Taxes  (20,468) (239,124) (165,678) (175,770)
4.01.01.08  Provision for Swap/Forward Operations  244,930  (162,508) 475,993  38,425 
4.01.01.09  Provision for Actuarial Liability  (10,930) (32,213) (36,236) (107,852)
4.01.01.10  Monetary and Exchange Variation  (121,435) (1,257,480) 1,314,663  669,046 
4.01.01.11  Provision for Contingencies  37,275  90,772  29,459  60,203 
4.01.01.12  Other Provisions  56,653  86,069  19,689  70,633 
4.01.02  Variation in Assets and Liabilities  (648,285) (1,272,415) (982,152) (1,143,955)
4.01.02.01  Accounts Receivable  (31,315) (67,289) (195,433) (394,312)
4.01.02.02  Inventories  677,606  780,928  (355,148) (260,718)
4.01.02.04  Taxes to Offset  50,284  102,418  (132,966) (187,047)
4.01.02.05  Suppliers  (775,977) (1,015,687) 425,893  315,363 
4.01.02.06  Salaries and Social Charges  26,475  38,542  23,659  47,349 
4.01.02.07  Taxes  151,320  545,963  (534,221) (140,094)
4.01.02.09  Contingent Liabilities  (8,552) 13,157  85,780  209,781 
4.01.02.10  Financial Institutions – Interest Rates  (236,171) (704,407) 118,668  (530,887)
4.01.02.11  Interests on Paid Swaps  (239,833) (295,166) (317,991) (317,991)
4.01.02.12  Prepaid Taxes  (136,950) (534,413)
4.01.02.13  Other  (125,172) (136,461) (100,393) 114,601 
4.01.03  Other 

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10.01 – CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS – INDIRECT METHOD (in thousands of Reais)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 7/1/2009 to 9/30/2009  4 - 1/1/2009 to 9/30/2009  5 - 7/1/2008 to 9/30/2008  6 - 1/1/2008 to 9/30/2008 
4.02  Net Cash from Investment Activities  (143,357) (424,548) 1,059,140  46,804 
4.02.01  Net Effects – Equity Swap Margin of Guarantee  330,728  1,420,322  1,817,500  1,817,500 
4.02.02  Swap realization  5,269  241,160 
4.02.03  Judicial Deposits  (34,158) (751,583) (118,887) (133,309)
4.02.04  Investments  (359) (359) (23) (23)
4.02.05  Property, Plant and Equipment  (444,421) (1,332,371) (611,384) (1,559,626)
4.02.06  Deferred Charges  (28,066) (77,738)
4.02.07  Intangible Assets  (416) (1,717)
4.03  Net Cash from Financing Activities  2,985,234  1,745,723  54,365  (1,249,200)
4.03.01  Loans and Financing  5,347,088  6,547,917  826,780  1,951,273 
4.03.02  Financial Institutions – Principal  (1,011,527) (1,683,776) (773,387) (1,085,921)
4.03.03  Dividends and Interest on Shareholders’ Equity  (20) (1,768,111) 972  (2,114,552)
4.03.04  Treasury Shares  (1,350,307) (1,350,307)
4.04  Foreign Exchange Variation on Cash and Cash Equivalents  (322,293) (1,264,606)
4.05  Increase (Decrease) in Cash and Cash Equivalents  2,827,663  (315,568) 2,357,473  1,670,111 
4.05.01  Opening Balance of Cash and Cash Equivalents  6,080,881  9,224,112  1,679,991  2,367,353 
4.05.02  Closing Balance of Cash and Cash Equivalents  8,908,544  8,908,544  4,037,464  4,037,464 

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11.01 – CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY FROM 7/1/2009 TO 9/30/2009 (in R$ thousands)

1 - CODE  2 – DESCRIPTION  3 – CAPITAL
STOCK 
4 – CAPITAL
RESERVES 
5 –REVALUATION
RESERVES 
6 – PROFIT
RESERVES 
7 – RETAINED
EARNINGS/
ACCUMULATED
LOSSES 
8 –EQUITY
VALUATION
ADJUSTMENTS 
9 - TOTAL
SHAREHOLDERS'
EQUITY 
5.01  Opening Balance  1,680,947  30  3,705,786  1,139,366  401,412  6,927,541 
5.02  Prior Year Adjustments 
5.03  Adjusted Balance  1,680,947  30  3,705,786  1,139,366  401,412  6,927,541 
5.04  Income/Loss for the Period  1,149,663  1,149,663 
5.05  Distributions  (80,340) (80,340)
5.05.01  Dividends 
5.05.02  Interest on Shareholders’ Equity  (80,340) (80,340)
5.05.03  Other Distributions 
5.06  Profit Reserve Realization 
5.07  Equity Valuation Adjustments  142,665  (434,436) (291,771)
5.07.01  Securities Adjustments 
5.07.02  Accumulated Translation Adjustments  142,665  (434,436) (291,771)
5.07.03  Business Combination Adjustments 
5.08  Increase/Reduction in Capital Stock 
5.09  Recording/Realization of Capital Reserves 
5.10  Treasury Shares  (472,517) (472,517)
5.11  Other Capital Transactions 
5.12  Other  (863,726) (14,064) (877,790)
5.12.01  Cancelation of Treasury Shares  (877,790) (877,790)
5.12.02  Earnings in Inventories  22,464  (22,464)
5.12.03  Market Value Adjustments  (8,400) 8,400 
5.13  Closing Balance  1,680,947  30  2,369,543  2,337,290  (33,024) 6,354,786 

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11.02 – CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY FROM 1/1/2009 TO 9/30/2009 (in R$ thousands)

1 - CODE  2 – DESCRIPTION  3 – CAPITAL
STOCK 
4 – CAPITAL
RESERVES 
5 –REVALUATION
RESERVES 
6 – PROFIT
RESERVES 
7 – RETAINED
EARNINGS/
ACCUMULATED
LOSSES 
8 –EQUITY
VALUATION
ADJUSTMENTS 
9 - TOTAL
SHAREHOLDERS'
EQUITY 
5.01  Opening Balance  1,680,947  30  3,682,864  1,298,748  6,662,589 
5.02  Prior Year Adjustments 
5.03  Adjusted Balance  1,680,947  30  3,682,864  1,298,748  6,662,589 
5.04  Income/Loss for the Period  1,853,230  1,853,230 
5.05  Distributions  (273,563) (273,563)
5.05.01  Dividends 
5.05.02  Interest on Shareholders’ Equity  (273,563) (273,563)
5.05.03  Other Distributions 
5.06  Profit Reserve Realization 
5.07  Equity Valuation Adjustments  794,609  (1,331,772) (537,163)
5.07.01  Securities Adjustments 
5.07.02  Accumulated Translation Adjustments  794,609  (1,331,772) (537,163)
5.07.03  Business Combination Adjustments 
5.08  Increase/Reduction in Capital Stock 
5.09  Recording/Realization of Capital Reserves 
5.10  Treasury Shares  (472,517) (472,517)
5.11  Other Capital Transactions 
5.12  Other  (840,804) (36,986) (877,790)
5.12.01  Unrealized Income  63,841  48,905  112,746 
5.12.02  Cancelation of Treasury Shares  (877,790) (877,790)
5.12.03  Market Value Adjustments  (26,855) (85,891) (112,746)
5.13  Closing Balance  1,680,947  30  2,369,543  2,337,290  (33,024) 6,354,786 

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                   00403-0  COMPANHIA SIDERÚRGICA NACIONAL  33.042.730/0001-04 
     
   
     
06.01 – NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 
   

(In thousands of Reais, unless otherwise stated)

1. OPERATIONS

The main activities of Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (“CSN” or “Company”) are the production of flat steel products, whose main industrial complex is the Presidente Vargas Steelworks (“UPV”), located in the city of Volta Redonda, State of Rio de Janeiro, and the iron ore production, main operation of which is developed in the city of Congonhas, state of Minas Gerais.

CSN is engaged in the mining of iron ore, limestone and dolomite in the branches in the State of Minas Gerais and tin in the State of Rondônia, by means of the subsidiary Estanho de Rondônia S.A. (“ERSA”), in order to meet the needs of UPV and the surplus raw materials are traded with subsidiaries and third parties. , The Company also maintains strategic investments in mining companies, railroad transport, electricity, and cement for providing greater synergy to the processes. In addition, the Company is establishing a long steel plant in Volta Redonda.

The company, aiming at getting closer to clients and exploiting markets at a global level, has a steel distributor, and metal packaging plants, in addition to a galvanized steel plant in the South and another in the Southeast of Brazil to meet the demand of the home appliance and automotive industry, respectively. Abroad, the Company has a steel rolling mill in Portugal and another mill in the United States.

The Company’s shares are listed on the Stock Exchanges in Brazil (BOVESPA) and the United States (NYSE).

2. PRESENTATION OF THE QUARTERLY INFORMATION

The individual (Company) and consolidated quarterly information was prepared in accordance with the accounting practices adopted in Brazil, based on the Brazilian Corporate Law, pronouncements issued by the Committee for Accounting Pronouncements – CPC and rules issued by the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (“CVM”).

In compliance with the CPC Technical Pronouncement 02, approved by the CVM Resolution 534, the Company integrated the investments abroad which are not characterized as independent entities into the Parent Company’s quarterly information (see Note 4).

The Company, in order to enhance the disclosures to the market, presents the following supplementary information on the business segments, comprising the Parent Company and the consolidated financial information:

“A segment is a distinguishable component of the Company , goal of which is the manufacturing of products, the rendering of services, or the provision of products and services within a particular economic environment, which is subject to risks and rewards that are different from other segments”.

The quarterly information includes the changes brought by Law 11,638/07 and Provisional Measure 449/08. The Company presents below a table with the effects related to the application of the new rules, which are in line with the assumptions underlying the December 31, 2008 statements.

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    Consolidated    Parent Company 
     
     Balance
disclosed at
  9/30/08 
  Adjustments of Law 11,638/07 and PM 449/08        Adjusted
   balance 
   Balance
disclosed at
 9/30/08 
  Adjustments of Law 11,638/07 and PM 449/08        Adjusted balance 
                     
                     
                     
                     
           
Shareholders’ equity                                 
 Capital    1,680,947            1,680,947    1,680,947            1,680,947 
 Other reserves    1,125,254    (658,969)   (2)   466,285    1,373,190    (657,310)   (2)   715,880 
Equity valuation adjustments                                 
 Foreign exchange variation of investees abroad        425,407    (9)   425,407        425,407    (9)   425,407 
 Equity valuation adjustments                                 
     Reversal of revaluation reserve    4,366,812    (4,366,812)   (1)+(3)       4,366,812    (4,366,812)   (1)+(3)    
     Reversal of exchange rate variation - Intercompany pre-payment        (180,206)   (7)   (180,206)                
     Reversal of intercompany loans variation        (202,412)   (7)   (202,412)                
     Reversal of loan agreement exchange variation        (52,990)   (7)   (52,990)                
     Provision for deferred income and social contribution taxes on                                 
       equity valuation adjustments        137,400    (8)   137,400                 
Retained earnings (or accumulated losses)   1,837,889    462,931        2,300,820    1,693,675    197,513        1,891,187 
 Reversal of realization of equity revaluation reserve        333,212    (1)   333,212    (142,970)   458,293    (1)   315,323 
 Reversal of income, social contribution taxes on portion                                 
     of revaluation reserve        (1,611)   (3)   (1,611)       (28,142)   (3)   (28,142)
 Deferred assets w rite-off related to 2007 balance        (22,302)   (6)   (22,302)       (22,302)   (6)   (22,302)
 Income for the period    1,837,889    153,632        1,991,521    1,836,645    (210,337)       1,626,308 
                 
TOTAL SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY    9,010,902    (4,435,651)       4,575,251    9,114,624    (4,401,202)       4,713,421 
                 
 
NET REVENUE    10,613,840            10,613,840    7,881,851            7,881,851 
 Cost of goods sold and services rendered    (5,567,145)   320,917    (2)   (5,246,228)   (4,202,442)   304,094    (2)   (3,898,348)
GROSS OPERATING INCOME    5,046,695    320,917        5,367,612    3,679,409    304,094        3,983,503 
OPERATING INCOME AND EXPENSES                                 
 Selling expenses    (529,222)   2,120    (2)   (527,102)   (335,536)   1,910    (2)   (333,626)
 General and administrative expenses    (364,898)   (33,399)   (2)   (398,297)   (239,729)   (10,918)   (2)   (250,647)
 Other operating expenses (income)   (344,027)   (2,720)   (2)+(5)   (346,747)   569,569    28,196    (2)+(5)   597,765 
 
OPERATING INCOME BEFORE FINANCIAL EFFECTS    3,808,548    286,918        4,095,466    3,673,713    323,282        3,996,995 
 Financial income and expenses    (886,895)           (886,895)   (455,561)   (79,661)   (10)   (535,222)
 Foreign exchange and monetary variations, net    (498,933)   10,201    (7)   (488,732)   (868,041)   (347,645)   (7)   (1,215,686)
INCOME BEFORE INCOME AND SOCIAL                                 
     CONTRIBUTION TAXES    2,422,720    297,119        2,719,839    2,350,111    (104,024)       2,246,087 
 Current income and social contribution taxes    (760,601)   (137,400)   (8)   (898,001)   (605,135)           (605,135)
 Deferred income and social contribution taxes    175,771    (112,400)   (4)   63,371    91,669    (106,313)   (4)   (14,644)
                 
NET INCOME FOR THE PERIOD    1,837,890    47,319        1,885,209    1,836,645    (210,337)       1,626,308 
                 

(1) Reversal of the revaluation.
(2) Portion related to the reversal of the depreciation of the revaluation.
(3) Income and social contribution tax reversal related to the revaluation.
(4) Income and social contribution tax reversal related to the depreciation of the revaluation.
(5) Write-off of revaluated assets.
(6) Write-off of deferred assets referring to 2007 pursuant to Law 11,638.
(7) Exchange rate variation of loans and financing from intercompany operations: Fixed rate notes, intercompany, prepayment and loan.
(8) Income tax (IR) and social contribution on net income (CSLL) related to exchange rate variation of loans and financing from intercompany operations: Fixed rate notes, intercompany, prepayment, loan, depreciation of revaluation.
(9) Equity valuation adjustment referring to equity pick-up effects.
(10) Adjustment companies considered as subsidiaries, in the adoption of law 11,638/07 and CPC 02.

3. MAIN ACCOUNTING PRACTICES

(a) Statement of income

The results of operations are recognized on the accrual basis and the revenue from the sales of products is recognized when the Company no longer controls or holds any responsibility for the property and all risks and rewards have been transferred to the buyer. Revenue from services rendered is recognized in proportion to the stage of completion of the service.

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Revenue is not recognized if Management cannot measure its value precisely and if there is no significant certainty as to the realization of the economic benefit of the sale.

(b) Current and noncurrent assets

Cash and cash equivalents

These are represented by immediate liquidity amounts, redeemable in up to 90 days from the balance sheet dates and with an insignificant risk of change in their market value. Financial assets included in this group are measured at fair value through the statement of income.

Trade accounts receivable

Trade accounts receivable are recorded at the invoiced amount, including the respective taxes and ancillary expenses and credits from clients in foreign currency are corrected at the exchange rate as of the date of the quarterly information. The allowance for doubtful accounts was recorded in an amount considered adequate to support possible losses and Management’s assessment takes into account the client’s history, the financial situation and the assessment of our legal advisors regarding the receipt of these credits for the recording of this provision.

Inventories

Inventories are stated at their average cost of acquisition or production and imports in transit are recorded at their cost of acquisition, not exceeding their market or realization values. Provisions for losses or obsolescence are recorded whenever Management considers it appropriate.

Investments

Investments in subsidiaries and jointly-owned subsidiaries are recorded through the equity accounting method and recognized in the income for the period as operating income (or expenses). Other investments are recorded and held at cost.

When necessary, the accounting practices of the subsidiaries and jointly-owned subsidiaries are changed to ensure criteria consistency and uniformity with the practices adopted by the Company.

Accounting records of the subsidiaries were integrated into to the parent Company’s quarterly information, as established in the CPC Pronouncement 02.

Property, plant and equipment

These are recorded at acquisition, formation or construction cost. Depreciation is calculated through the straight-line method, based on the remaining economic useful lives of the assets, and depletion of the mines is calculated based on the quantity of iron ore extracted. Loans costs related to funds raised for specific construction in progress are capitalized until the constructions are concluded.

Law 11638/07, Provisional Measure (MP) 449/08 and the CPC Pronouncement 01 require that the recoverability valuation of all items comprising this subgroup be carried out and if there is evidence of loss, as no item should remain recorded under property, plant and equipment at an amount higher than its recoverable value, then there may be the need of the performance of a recoverability valuation of this asset. The Company evaluated its property, plant and equipment items and did not identify any loss to be recorded.

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Intangible assets

Intangible assets comprise of assets acquired from third parties, including by means of business combinations, and/or those internally generated by the Company.

These assets are recorded at the acquisition or formation cost, less amortization calculated through the straight-line method based on exploration or recovery terms.

Intangible assets with indefinite useful lives, as well as goodwill for expected future profitability, will no longer be amortized as of January 1, 2009, and their recoverable value will be tested on a yearly basis, or whenever it is deemed necessary.

Deferred charges

The Company maintains in this group just the remaining balances of deferred pre-operating expenses, which will be amortized in accordance with the criteria prior to Law 11,638/07 due to the option offered by the CPC Technical Pronouncement 13 (Initial adoption of Law 11638/07) and Provisional Measure 449/08.

Impairment

The recoverable value of intangible assets and deferred charges are tested on a yearly basis or, as in the case of property, plant and equipment, whenever significant events or changes in circumstances indicate that the book value may not be recovered.

In order to test the recoverability of an individual asset or a group of assets, the Company analyzes supporting evidence that their book values will not be recovered and, should these evidences be confirmed and the Company identifies an impairment possibility, Management compares the residual book value of this group of assets with their recoverable value and records them.

Other current and noncurrent assets

Stated at their realization value, including, when applicable, the yields earned up to the date of the quarterly information or, in the case of prepaid expenses, at cost.

(c) Current and noncurrent liabilities

These are stated at their known or calculatable values, plus, when applicable, the corresponding charges and monetary and foreign exchange variations incurred up to the date of the quarterly information.

Employee benefits

In compliance with Resolution 371/00, issued by the CVM, the Company has been recording the respective actuarial liabilities as from January 1, 2002, in accordance with the aforementioned reported resolution and based on independent actuary studies, which are carried out annually .

Income and social contribution taxes

Income tax is calculated at rates of 15% plus an additional of 10% on taxable basis and social contribution on net income at a 9% rate on the taxable basis. In the calculation of taxes, the offsetting of the tax loss carryforward and negative basis of social contribution is also considered, and it is limited to 30% of the taxable income.

The deferred tax assets deriving from tax loss carry forwards and negative basis of social contribution on net income were recorded in compliance with the CVM Resolution 371/02 and took into consideration the history of profitability and the expectations of generating future taxable income, based on a technical study.

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(d) Derivative financial instruments

The financial instrument balances, recorded in accordance with the CPC Technical Pronouncement 14, which was approved by the CVM Resolution 565/08, are classified and recorded at fair value and gains and losses are recognized in the statement of income by accrual period.

(e) Other derivative financial instruments

The Company maintained a financial instrument called total return equity swap, purpose of which is to increase the return on financial assets. This instrument was recorded at fair value and gains and losses were recognized in the statement of income by accrual period.

This instrument was recorded in other accounts payable, and its margin of guarantee in other accounts receivable; the instrument was settled on August 13, 2009.

(f) Nonderivatives financial instruments

Financial instruments are initially recognized at fair value, whereas those financial instruments not classified at fair value through profit and loss are recognized with the transaction costs that are directly attributable to them. Subsequently to the initial recognition the financial instruments are measured as follows:

Financial asset or liability measured at fair value through profit and loss

A financial instrument is classified as measured at fair value through profit and loss if it is held for trading. These instruments are measured at fair value and the subsequent fluctuation is recognized in the income for the period.

Loans and receivable

These are measured at the amortized cost and by using the effective interest rate method, less impairment loss.

(g) Treasury Shares

As established by the CVM Instruction 10 of February 14, 1980, shares held in treasury are recorded at cost of acquisition, and the market value of these shares is calculated based on the average stock exchange quotation on the last day of the period.

(h) Accounting Estimates

The preparation of the quarterly information, in accordance with the accounting practices adopted in Brazil, requires that Management uses its judgment in determining and recording the accounting estimates, such as: allowance for doubtful accounts, provision for inventory losses, provisions for labor, civil, tax, environmental and social security liabilities, depreciation, amortization, depletion, provision for impairment, deferred taxes, financial instruments and employees’ benefits. The settlement of the transactions involving these estimates may result in amounts different from those estimated, due to lack of precision inherent to the process of their determination. The Company periodically reviews the estimates and assumptions.

4. CONSOLIDATED QUARTERLY INFORMATION

The accounting practices reflect the changes introduced by the new pronouncements and were treated uniformly in all the consolidated companies.

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The consolidated quarterly information for the periods ended September 30, 2009 and June 30, 2009, include the following direct and indirect subsidiaries and jointly-owned subsidiaries:

    Ownership interest (%)    
       
Companies    9/30/2009    6/30/2009    Main activities 
       
Direct investment: full consolidation 
CSN Energy    100.00    100.00    Equity interest 
CSN Export    100.00    100.00    Financial operations, trading of products and equity interest 
CSN Overseas    100.00    100.00    Financial operations and equity interest 
CSN Panama    100.00    100.00    Financial operations and equity interest 
CSN Steel    100.00    100.00    Financial operations and equity interest 
Arame Corporation    100.00    100.00    Dorment Company 
TdBB S.A    100.00    100.00    Dorment Company 
International Charitable Corporation    100.00    100.00    Dorment Company 
GalvaSud    99.99    99.99    Steel 
Sepetiba Tecon    99.99    99.99    Maritime port services 
Mineração Nacional (1)   99.99    99.99    Mining and equity interest 
CSN Aços Longos    99.99    99.99    Steel and/or metal products industry and trade 
Itaguaí Logística    99.99    99.99    Logistics 
Estanho de Rondônia - ERSA    99.99    99.99    Mining 
Cia Metalic Nordeste    99.99    99.99    Packaging production 
Companhia Metalúrgica Prada    99.99    99.99    Packaging production 
CSN Cimentos    99.99    99.99    Cement production 
Inal Nordeste    99.99    99.99    Steel products service center 
CSN Gestão de Recursos Financeiros    99.99    99.99    Dorment Company 
Congonhas Minérios    99.99    99.99    Mining and equity interest 
CSN Energia    99.9    99.9    Electricity trading 
Direct investment: proportional consolidation 
Transnordestina Logística    81.6    81.6    Railroad transport 
Nacional Minérios    59.99    59.99    Mining and equity interest 
Itá Energética    48.75    48.75    Electricity generation 
MRS Logística    27.27    27.27    Railroad transport 
Indirect investment: full consolidation 
CSN Aceros    100.00    100.00    Equity interest 
CSN Cayman    100.00    100.00    Financial operations, trading of products and equity interest 
CSN Iron    100.00    100.00    Financial operations 
Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional LLC    100.00    100.00    Steel 
CSN Holdings Corp    100.00    100.00    Equity interest 
Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional Partner LLC    100.00    100.00    Equity interest 
Energy I    100.00    100.00    Equity interest 
CSN Madeira    100.00    100.00    Financial operations, trading of products and equity interest 
Cinnabar    100.00    100.00    Financial operations and equity interest 
Hickory    100.00    100.00    Financial operations and trading of products 
Lusosider Projectos Siderúrgicos    100.00    100.00    Equity interest 
CSN Acquisitions    100.00    100.00    Financial operations and equity interest 
CSN Finance (Netherlands)   100.00    100.00    Financial operations and equity interest 
CSN Finance    100.00    100.00    Financial operations and equity interest 
CSN Holdings    100.00    100.00    Financial operations and equity interest 
Itamambuca Participações    100.00    100.00    Mining and equity interest 
Lusosider Aços Planos    99.94    99.94    Steel industry and equity interest 
CSN Energia    0.1    0.1    Electricity trading 
Indirect investment: proportional consolidation 
Namisa Europe (2)   60.00    60.00    Equity interest and trading of products and mining 
Inversiones CSN Espanha    60.00    60.00    Financial operations and equity interest 
Pelotização Nacional    59.99    59.99    Mining and equity interest 
MG Minérios    59.99    59.99    Mining and equity interest 
MRS Logística    6.00    6.00    Railroad transport 

(1) New corporate name of Minas Pelotização.
(2) New corporate name of NMSA Madeira.

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The following consolidation procedures were adopted in the preparation of the consolidated quarterly information:

• Elimination of the balances of asset and liability accounts between consolidated companies;
• Elimination of the balances of investments and shareholders’ equity between consolidated companies;
• Elimination of balances of income and expenses and unrealized income deriving from consolidated intercompany transactions;
• Presentation of income and social contribution taxes on the unearned income as deferred taxes in the consolidated quarterly information; and
• Reclassification of exchange rate variations of monetary items with net foreign investment characteristics from financial income to shareholders’ equity. Due to the change in the Management’s intent regarding the settlement of these loans, the foreign exchange effects determined after August 31, 2009 have been recorded in income for the period.

Pursuant to the CVM Instruction 408 of August 18, 2004, the Company consolidates the quarterly information of the exclusive investment funds Diplic and Mugen.

The base date for the subsidiaries’ and jointly-owned subsidiaries’ quarterly information coincides with that of the Parent Company.

The reconciliation between shareholders’ equity and net income for the period of the Parent Company and consolidated is as follows:

    Shareholders’ equity    Net income for the year 
     
    9/30/2009    6/30/2009    9/30/2009    9/30/2008 
         
Parent Company    6,403,692    6,990,512    2,610,853    1,836,645 
Elimination of interests in inventories    (49,969)   (72,432)   35,924    1,244 
Foreign exchange variation adjustment – CPC02            (794,792)    
Other adjustments    1,063    9,461    1,244     
         
Consolidated    6,354,786    6,927,541    1,853,230    1,837,889 
         

Additionally, the quarterly information of the subsidiaries abroad which are not characterized as independent entities was integrated into the parent company’s quarterly information, pursuant to the CPC Technical Pronouncement 02, approved by the CVM Resolution 534/08:

    Ownership interest (%)    
     
Companies   
9/30/2009 
6/30/2009 
  Main activities 
       
Branches             
CSN Islands VII    100.00    100.00    Financial operations 
CSN Islands VIII    100.00    100.00    Financial operations 
CSN Islands IX    100.00    100.00    Financial operations 
CSN Islands X    100.00    100.00    Financial operations 
CSN Islands XI    100.00    100.00    Financial operations 
Tangua    100.00    100.00    Financial operations 
International Investment Fund    100.00    100.00    Equity interest 

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5. RELATED PARTIES TRANSACTIONS

a) Transactions with Parent Company

Vicunha Siderurgia S.A. is a holding company whose purpose is to hold interest in other companies. It is the Company’s main shareholder, with a 47.86% interest in the voting capital.

Vicunha Siderurgia’s corporate structure is as follows (unrevised information):

Rio Purus Participações S.A. – holds 60% of National Steel and 59.99% of Vicunha Steel S.A.
CFL Participações S.A. – holds 40% of National Steel and 39.99% of Vicunha Steel S.A.
National Steel – holds 33.04% of Vicunha Aços
Vicunha Steel – holds 66.96% of Vicunha Aços
Vicunha Aços – holds 99.99% of Vicunha Siderurgia

CSN recorded interest on shareholders’ equity for the period, in addition, the Company paid dividends and interest on shareholders’ equity for Vicunha Siderurgia in the amount indicated in the table below, according to the percentage of the Vicunha Siderurgia’s interest in CSN as of the closing date of this quarterly information.

 Parent company    Proposed 
interest on 
shareholders'
 equity 
  Dividends 
paid in the 
period 
  Interest on 
shareholders' 
equity paid in 
the period 
       
Total at 9/30/2009    130,915    689,747    123,421 
       
Total at 12/31/2008        938,223    93,210 
       

b) Transactions with jointly-owned subsidiaries

The Company holds interest in jointly-owned subsidiaries in the strategic areas of mining, logistics and power generation. The characteristics, goals and transactions with these companies are stated as follows:

Assets

Companies    Accounts 
receivable 
  Dividends 
receivable 
  Loans / current 
accounts(*)
  Advance for future 
capital increase 
  Total 
           
Nacional Minérios    37,822        1,212,482        1,250,304 
Transnordestina                97,949    97,949 
MRS Logística    1,149    50,147            51,296 
           
Total at 9/30/2009    38,971    50,147    1,212,482    97,949    1,399,549 
           
Total at 6/30/2009    76,644    50,147    1,238,946    37,138    1,402,875 
           

(*) Loan agreement of US$500,000 thousand, starting on January 28, 2009, maturing on January 31, 2012 and with semiannual interest rate of 12% p.a.

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Liabilities and shareholders’ equity

    Liabilities    Shareholders' equity 
         
Companies    Advance from 
clients 
  Loans / Current 
accounts 
  Other    Total    Equity Valuation 
Adjustments - Effects 
  Total 
             
Nacional Minérios    7,577,500    5,715        7,583,215    (15,508)   (15,508)
MRS Logística        2,142    99,043    101,185         
Itá Energética            12,785    12,785         
             
Total at 9/30/2009    7,577,500    7,857    111,828    7,697,185    (15,508)   (15,508)
             
Total at 6/30/2009    7,516,096    5,770    86,350    7,608,216    6,059    6,059 
             

Namisa: the advance from clients received from the jointly-owned subsidiary Nacional Minérios S.A. is related to the contractual obligation of iron ore supply and port services by CSN. The contract has a 12.5% p.a. interest rate and maturity expected for June 2042.

The valuation adjustment effects refer to an investee abroad whose functional currency is different from the real.

MRS: in other accounts payable with MRS Logística we recorded the amount provisioned by CSN to cover take-or-pay contractual expenses related to the rail transportation contract, agreed upon normal price conditions practiced in this market.

Itasa: it is related to the electric power supply billed under normal market conditions of the Brazilian energy market, ruled by Electric Power Trade Chamber.

Income

         
    Revenues    Expenses 
         
Companies    Products and 
services 
  Interest and monetary 
and exchange variations 
  Total    Products and 
services 
  Interest    Total 
             
Nacional Minérios    349,574    81,046    430,620    59,107    670,268    729,375 
MRS Logística    104        104    285,280        285,280 
Itá Energética                109,348        109,348 
             
Total at 9/30/2009    349,678    81,046    430,724    453,735    670,268    1,124,003 
             
Total at 9/30/2008    85,248        85,248    438,802        438,802 
             

Nacional Minérios S.A. (“Namisa”)

Its main purpose is to extract and sell own and third-party iron ore. The main operations are developed in the cities of Congonhas, Ouro Preto, Itabirito and Rio Acima in the state of Minas Gerais, and in Itaguaí, state of Rio de Janeiro. CSN maintains iron ore supply and port service provision transactions, in addition to administrative, operating and financial support.

Transnordestina Logística S.A.

Its main purpose is to exploit the public rail cargo transportation service concession and the development in the Northeast Network. The Company does not maintain operating transactions with the subsidiary, and the operations between the parties are related to financial support to projects and operations of the subsidiary.

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MRS Logística S.A.

Its purpose is to exploit and develop the public rail cargo transportation service in the Southeast Network, which serves the Rio de Janeiro-São Paulo-Belo Horizonte stretch. MRS provides rail cargo transportation services for the supply and outflow of the CSN raw materials and finished products.

Itá Energética S.A. – Itasa

Itasa holds an interest in the Itá Hydroelectric Power Plant consortium and the operations between the parties are related to contracting electric power supply for the CSN operations.

c) Transactions with subsidiaries and special purpose entities (exclusive investment funds)

Assets

   
    Accounts    Marketable    Loans/current    Dividends    Advance for future     
Companies    receivable    securities (**)   accounts(*)   receivable    capital increase    Total 
             
Exclusive investment funds        2,136,627                2,136,627 
Cinnabar            1,689,265            1,689,265 
CSN Madeira    329,564        376,313            705,877 
CSN Export    484,468                    484,468 
Companhia Metalúrgica Prada    71,280        2,527            73,807 
CSN Cimentos    1,545                38,700    40,245 
CSN Aços Longos                    18,726    18,726 
GalvaSud    8,456                    8,456 
Inal Nordeste    7,550                    7,550 
CSN Energia                6,007        6,007 
Namisa Europe    5,855                    5,855 
Cia. Metalic Nordeste    5,332                    5,332 
Estanho Rondônia                4,958        4,958 
Sepetiba Tecon    206        456            662 
Aceros            44            44 
             
Total at 9/30/2009    914,256    2,136,627    2,068,605    10,965    57,426    5,187,879 
             
Total at 6/30/2009    827,301    659,505    2,290,805    10,965    174,634    3,963,210 
             

(*) Cinnabar – Contract in US$; interest ranging from 5.58% p.a. to 10.42% p.a.; final maturity in January 2015.
CSN Madeira - Contract in US$; interest ranging from 9.50% to 10.88 % p.a.; final maturity in January 2015.

(**) Financial investments in exclusive investment funds managed by Banco BTG Pactual are backed by Brazilian government bonds and have daily liquidity.

Accounts receivable derive from sales operations of products and services among the parent company and the subsidiaries.

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Liabilities

    Loans and financing    Accounts payable     
         
            Loans and             
        Fixed Rate    Intercompany    Loans (3) / current         
Companies    Pre-payment (1)   Notes(2)   Bonds (2)   accounts    Other    Total 
             
Cinnabar    1,440,146    715,478    131,379    273,402        2,560,405 
CSN Iron    86,868        1,106,556            1,193,424 
CSN Madeira    346,258        18,180    313,981        678,419 
CSN Export    578,570            10,639        589,209 
Aceros                17,875        17,875 
Ersa                    4,213    4,213 
GalvaSud                    1,724    1,724 
Other(*)                   1,396    1,396 
             
Total at 9/30/2009    2,451,842    715,478    1,256,115    615,897    7,333    5,046,665 
             
Total at 6/30/2009    2,742,259    731,761    1,350,722    674,818    189,434    5,688,994 
             

The conditions of the transactions with these subsidiaries are shown as follows:

(1) Contracts in US$ - CSN Export: interest from 4.00% to 7.43% p.a. with maturity in May 2015.
Contracts in US$ - Cinnabar: interest from 7.00% to 10.0% p.a. with maturity in June 2018.
Contracts in US$ - CSN Madeira: interest of 7.25% p.a. with maturity in September 2016.
Contracts in US$ - CSN Iron: interest of 7.00% p.a. with maturity in January 2012.

(2) Contracts in US$ - CSN Iron: Intercompany Bonds: interest of 9.125% p.a. with maturity on June 1, 2047.
Contracts in YEN - Cinnabar: interest of 1.5% p.a. with maturity on July 13, 2010.
Contracts in R$ - Cinnabar (part): IGPM + 6% p.a. with indefinite maturity.
Contracts in US$ - CSN Madeira (part): semiannual Libor + 2.5% p.a. with maturity on September 15, 2011.

(3) Contracts in US$ - CSN Madeira (part): semiannual Libor + 3% p.a. with indefinite maturity.
Contracts in US$ - CSN Export: semiannual Euribor + 0.5% p.a. with indefinite maturity.
Contracts in US$ - Cinnabar (part): semiannual Libor + 3% p.a. with indefinite maturity.

(*) Other: Metalic, Inal Nordeste, Prada, CSN LLC, CSN Cimentos and Tecon.

Shareholders’ equity – accumulated translation adjustments (Law 11,638/07)

    Investment         
    Exchange    Investments Exchange     
Companies 
  Variation    Variation Effects    Total 
       
Panama    29,791        29,791 
CSN Steel    12,805    (11,866)   939 
Overseas    (8,983)       (8,983)
Energy I    (13,274)       (13,274)
CSN Export    (25,988)       (25,988)
       
Total at 9/30/2009    (5,649)   (11,866)   (17,515)
       
Total at 6/30/2009    414,200    (18,848)   395,352 
       

Accumulated translation adjustments (asset valuation adjustment) refer to investees overseas whose functional currencies are different from the Brazilian Real.

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Income

       
    Revenues    Expenses 
         
        Interest and        COGS /    Interest and     
    Products and    monetary and        Products and    monetary and     
Companies       services    exchange variations    Total    services    exchange variations    Total 
             
CSN Export    666,906    (65,461)   601,445    560,369    (153,396)   406,973 
Companhia Metalúrgica Prada    648,064        648,064    297,090        297,090 
GalvaSud    405,218        405,218    245,141        245,141 
Cia. Metalic Nordeste    58,350        58,350    32,529        32,529 
Inal Nordeste    33,236        33,236    16,058        16,058 
Ersa                13,598        13,598 
Namisa Europe    47,146    (9,705)   37,441    9,660        9,660 
Sepetiba Tecon    2,146        2,146    1,692        1,692 
CSN Cimentos    13,936        13,936             
Exclusive investment funds        (603,800)   (603,800)            
Aceros                    (5,619)   (5,619)
CSN Madeira    521,973    (63,732)   458,241    157,713    (190,281)   (32,568)
CSN Iron                    (280,537)   (280,537)
Cinnabar        142,777    142,777        (665,581)   (665,581)
             
Total at 9/30/2009    2,396,975    (599,921)   1,797,054    1,333,850    (1,295,414)   38,436 
             
Total at 9/30/2008    2,159,314    219,011    2,378,325    1,084,821    848,728    1,933,549 
             

During 2009, the subsidiary CSN Export S.à.r.l. exported to the CSN subsidiaries, Lusosider in Portugal and CSN LLC in the United States, intermediated by third parties. These transactions and their effects were eliminated from the consolidated quarterly information.

d) Other related parties

CBS Previdência

The Company is the main sponsor of CBS Previdência, not-for-profit civil association set up in July 1960, whose main purpose is to pay supplementary benefits to those paid by social security. As the CBS Previdência sponsor, CSN maintains payment transactions of contributions and actuarial liability recognition ascertained in defined benefit plans.

Fundação CSN

CSN develops socially responsible policies currently focused on Fundação CSN, whose sponsor is the Company. Transactions between the parties are related to operating and financial support for Fundação CSN to develop social projects, mainly in the localities where CSN operates.

Banco Fibra

Banco Fibra is under the same control structure of Vicunha Siderurgia, and financial transactions with this bank are limited to transactions in checking accounts and financial investments in fixed income.

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The balances of transactions between the Company and these entities are shown as follows:

Assets and Liabilities

    Assets    Liabilities 
         
    Bank checking                 
    accounts and        Actuarial    Other accounts     
 Companies    marketable securities    Total    liabilities    payable    Total 
           
CBS Previdência            85,355        85,355 
Fundação CSN    906    906        50    50 
Banco Fibra    5,221    5,221             
           
Total at 9/30/2009    6,127    6,127    85,355    50    85,405 
           
Total at 6/30/2009    14,627    14,627    96,285    66    96,351 
           

Income

    Revenues    Expenses 
     
            Pension         
    Monetary and        Fund         
Company    exchange variation    Total    Expenses    Other expenses    Total 
           
CBS Previdência    154    154    52,003    55    52,058 
Fundação CSN                1,680    1,680 
Banco Fibra    181    181             
           
Total at 9/30/2009    335    335    52,003    1,735    53,738 
           
Total at 9/30/2008            (2,914)   3,089    175 
           

e) Key management personnel

Key management personnel are responsible for planning, directing and controlling the Company’s activities and include the members of the Board of Directors, statutory officers and other officers. The Company presents, in the table below, information on compensation and balances existing as of September 30, 2009.

    9/30/2009    6/30/2009    9/30/2009    9/30/2008 
         
    Assets    Liabilities    Assets    Liabilities    Income    Income 
           
Short-term benefits for employees and management        1,310        1,258    5,424    7,461 
Post-employment benefits                    73    86 
Other long-term benefits    n/a    n/a    n/a    n/a         
Benefits of labor agreement termination    n/a    n/a    n/a    n/a         
Share-based compensation    n/a    n/a    n/a    n/a         
             
        1,310        1,258    5,497    7,547 
             

n/a – Not applicable

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6. CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS

    Consolidated    Parent Company 
         
    9/30/2009    6/30/2009    9/30/2009    6/30/2009 
         
Current assets                 
   Cash and cash equivalents                 
         Cash and Banks    1,388,701    182,004    1,320,521    100,992 
 
   Marketable Securities 
               
         In Brazil:                 
             Exclusive investment funds            2,136,627    659,505 
             Brazilian government bonds    3,006,205    1,017,261         
             Fixed income and debentures    1,158,654    979,774    15,035    2,057 
         
    4,164,859    1,997,035    2,151,662    661,562 
         
         Abroad:                 
             Time Deposits    3,354,984    3,901,842    1,818,682    2,608,678 
         
Total Marketable securities    7,519,843    5,898,877    3,970,344    3,270,240 
         
Cash and Cash Equivalents    8,908,544    6,080,881    5,290,865    3,371,232 
         

The available financial funds in the Parent Company and subsidiaries established in Brazil are primarily invested in exclusive investment funds, whose cash is mostly invested in repurchase operations pegged to Brazilian government bonds, with immediate liquidity. Additionally, a significant portion of the financial funds of the Company and its subsidiaries abroad is invested in Time Deposits in first-tier banks.

The exclusive investment funds, managed by BTG Pactual Serviços Financeiros S.A DTVM, and its assets, are accountable for possible losses in investments and operations carried out. The Company may bear the fund’s operation fees (management, custody and audit fees) and it may also be called to back the shareholders’ equity in the event of losses resulting from interest rate, exchange rate or other financial asset variations.

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7. ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE

    Consolidated    Parent Company 
       
    9/30/2009    6/30/2009    9/30/2009    6/30/2009 
         
Domestic market                 
Subsidiaries            133,340    231,987 
Other clients    1,111,671    1,109,914    647,729    676,234 
         
    1,111,671    1,109,914    781,069    908,221 
Foreign market                 
Subsidiaries            819,888    671,958 
Other clients    362,581    304,990    4,002    11,141 
         
    362,581    304,990    823,890    683,099 
Advance on Export Contracts (ACE)   (53,343)   (58,548)   (53,343)   (58,548)
Allowance for doubtful accounts    (296,794)   (277,608)   (242,727)   (222,652)
         
    1,124,115    1,078,748    1,308,889    1,310,120 
         

The Company also maintains other long-term accounts receivable, and among these assets 77% are debentures issued by Companhia Brasileira de Latas in 2002, in the amount of R$212,870. As of September 30, 2009, the Company held a provision for total loss for these debentures.

8. INVENTORIES

    Consolidated    Parent Company 
       
    9/30/2009    6/30/2009    9/30/2009    6/30/2009 
         
Finished products    603,691    638,189    369,534    422,732 
Work in process    587,866    872,063    488,819    808,896 
Raw materials    547,660    749,614    396,371    476,923 
Supplies    711,561    732,973    601,424    622,245 
Advance to suppliers    227,066    382,352    212,959    316,574 
Provision for losses    (42,494)   (26,819)   (38,393)   (22,846)
Materials in transit    91,159    64,352    53,340    18,433 
         
    2,726,509    3,412,724    2,084,054    2,642,957 
         

9. DEFERRED INCOME AND SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION TAXES

(a) Deferred income and social contribution taxes

Deferred income and social contribution taxes are recognized in order to reflect future tax effects attributable to temporary differences between the tax base of assets, liabilities and the respective carrying value.

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    Consolidated    Parent Company 
       
    9/30/2009    6/30/2009    9/30/2009    6/30/2009 
         
Current assets                 
Income tax    494,658    388,182    316,162    321,049 
Social contribution    176,676    139,992    113,965    115,739 
         
    671,334    528,174    430,127    436,788 
         
Long-term assets                 
Income tax    1,132,652    608,024    527,164    508,378 
Social contribution    394,766    205,814    176,549    169,699 
         
    1,527,418    813,838    703,713    678,077 
         
Current liabilities                 
Income tax    936             
Social contribution    337             
         
    1,273             
         
Long-term liabilities                 
Income tax    15,620             
Social contribution    5,623             
         
    21,243             
         
 
         
    9/30/2009    9/30/2008    9/30/2009    9/30/2008 
         
Income                 
Income tax    177,719    123,402     (70,123)   62,947 
Social contribution    61,405    52,368     (26,184)   28,722 
         
    239,124    175,770     (96,307)   91,669 
         

Pursuant to CVM Instruction 371/02, some companies of the group, recorded tax credits on tax loss carryforwards and negative basis of social contribution that are not subject to statute of limitations based on the history of profitability and on the expectations of future taxable income determined in technical valuation approved by the Management.

The increase in deferred taxes in the quarter results from the tax benefit generated from the merger of Big Jump into Namisa, as described in Note 25.

The book value of deferred tax assets is reviewed monthly and projections are reviewed annually, and are subject to any material aspects that might change realization projections. These studies indicate the realization of these tax assets within the term established by said Instruction and within the 30% limit of the taxable income, fact which is shown as follows:

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                9/30/2009 
   
    Consolidated    Parent Company 
     
    Corporate income tax    Social contribution    Corporate income tax    Social contribution 
Year    Tax loss    Negative basis    Tax loss    Negative basis 
         
2009    84,764    28,703                                       61,445    22,267 
2010    5,781    2,081         
2011    5,400    1,944         
2012    4,971    1,790         
2013    4,577    1,648         
2014 to 2016    16,084    6,032         
         
Total    121,577    42,198                                       61,445    22,267 
         

(b) The sources of the deferred income and social contribution taxes of the Parent Company are shown as follows:

    9/30/2009    6/30/2009 
         
    Income tax    Social contribution    Income tax    Social contribution 
         
    Short-Term    Long-Term    Short-Term    Long-Term    Short-Term    Long-Term    Short-Term    Long-Term 
               
Assets                                 
Provisions for contingencies    46,251    365,887    16,650    131,719    47,597    327,709    17,135    117,975 
Provision for interest on shareholders’ equity    68,417        24,630        48,319        17,395     
Provision for payment of private pension plans    14,181    7,158    5,105    2,577    14,076    9,996    5,067    3,598 
Taxes under litigation        24,910                24,450         
Tax credits - Income and social contribution taxes    61,445        22,267        100,108        36,200     
Other provisions    125,868    129,209    45,313    42,253    110,949    146,223    39,942    48,126 
                 
    316,162    527,164    113,965    176,549    321,049    508,378    115,739    169,699 
                 

(c) The reconciliation between the income and social contribution tax expenses and income of the parent company and consolidated, and the result of the rate on net income before Income tax (IR) and Social Contribution (CSLL) in force are shown as follows:

    Consolidated    Parent Company 
       
    9/30/2009    9/30/2008    9/30/2009    9/30/2008 
         
Income before income and social contribution taxes    2,405,049    2,422,720    3,247,779    2,350,111 
 Rate    34%    34%    34%    34% 
         
Income and social contribution taxes at the combined tax rate    (817,717)   (823,725)   (1,104,245)   (799,038)
Adjustments to reflect the effective tax rate:                 
 Benefit of Interest on shareholders’ equity - JCP    93,012    64,474    93,012    64,474 
 Equity income of subsidiaries at different rates or which are not taxable    507,521    139,677    732,459    237,217 
 Tax incentives    6,921    12,701    5,114    12,701 
 Tax credits        51,096         
 Effect of exchange rate variation on incorporated branches – CPC 02    (337,683)       (337,683)    
 Other permanent (additions) deductions    (3,873)   (29,054)   (25,583)   (28,820)
         
Income and social contribution taxes on net income for the period    (551,819)   (584,831)   (636,926)   (513,466)
         
Effective rate    23%    24%    20%    22% 

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10. INVESTMENTS

a) Direct interest in subsidiaries and jointly-owned subsidiaries

                    9/30/2009            6/30/2009 
     
                Net           Net     
Companies    Number of shares          income          income     
    (in units)       Direct    (loss)   Shareholders'    Direct    (loss)   Shareholders' 
               
    Common    Preferred    interest    for the period    equity    interest    for the period    equity 
                 
Steel                                 
Cia. Metalic Nordeste    87,868,185    4,424,971    99.99    (755)   91,958    99.99    (2,657)   92,713 
INAL Nordeste    43,985,567        99.99    (3,558)   36,715    99.99    (4,535)   40,273 
CSN Aços Longos    198,448,052        99.99    (1,184)   210,256    99.99        36,807 
GalvaSud    11,610,671,043        99.99    26,111    749,721    99.99    27,787    723,610 
Companhia Metalúrgica Prada    3,155,036        99.99    (5,861)   561,391    100.00    5,209    567,252 
CSN Steel    480,726,588        100.00    15,272    1,447,968    100.00    2,371    1,567,239 
CSN Overseas    7,173,411        100.00    33,858    1,027,670    100.00    24,945    1,092,350 
CSN Panama    4,240,032        100.00    27,133    692,325    100.00    99,404    733,071 
CSN Energy    3,675,319        100.00    91,023    903,751    100.00    360,533    902,655 
CSN Export    1,036,429        100.00    (31,235)   214,083    100.00    4,528    266,807 
Logistics                                 
MRS Logística    188,332,667    151,667,313    27.27    178,186    1,960,881    27.27    131,570    1,782,694 
Transnordestina Logística    550,722,199    45,513,333    81.60    (4,427)   409,595    81.60    (10,246)   414,022 
Sepetiba Tecon    254,015,053        99.99    13,243    200,321    99.99    5,538    187,077 
Itaguaí Logística    1,000,000        99.99        998    99.99        998 
Energy                                 
Itá Energética    520,219,172        48.75    11,986    642,760    48.75    19,921    630,774 
CSN Energia    1,000        99.99    (314)   62,833    99.99    (923)   63,085 
Mining                                 
ERSA    34,236,307        99.99    (728)   17,341    99.99    (1,788)   18,069 
Congonhas Minérios    5,010,000        99.99    85    5,815    99.99    96    5,729 
Pelotização Nacional    1,000,000        99.99        998    99.99        998 
Nacional Minérios    475,067,405        59.99    220,928    10,031,207    59.99    222,809    8,454,103 
Cement                                 
CSN Cimentos    722,113,330        99.99    (13,585)   315,739    99.99    (10,231)   329,324 

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b) Investment breakdown

    6/30/2009                        9/30/2009 
     
Companies     Opening 
balance of 
investments
  Additions (w rite-offs)   Equity pick-up 
and provision 
for losses 
   Closing 
balance of 
investments 
 
    Capital 
increase 
  Dividends    Foreign exchange 
variation adjustments 
CPC 02 
  Gain and loss 
in percentage 
variation 
  Other     
                 
Steel                                 
Cia Metalurgica Prada    567,252                        (5,861)   561,391 
Cia. Metalic Nordeste    92,713                        (755)   91,958 
INAL Nordeste    40,273                        (3,558)   36,715 
CSN Aços Longos    36,807    174,633                    (1,184)   210,256 
GalvaSud    723,610                        26,111    749,721 
CSN Steel    1,567,239            (141,523)       6,981 (1)   15,271    1,447,968 
CSN Overseas    1,092,350            (98,538)           33,858    1,027,670 
CSN Panama    733,071            (67,878)           27,132    692,325 
CSN Energy    902,655            (89,927)           91,023    903,751 
CSN Export    266,807    492        (21,982)           (31,234)   214,083 
                 
    6,022,777    175,125        (419,848)       6,981    150,803    5,935,838 
Logistics                                 
MRS Logistica    486,131                        48,590    534,721 
Transnordestina Logística    337,833                        (3,612)   334,221 
Sepetiba Tecon    187,077                        13,244    200,321 
Itaguaí Logística    998                            998 
                 
    1,012,039                        58,222    1,070,261 
Energy                                 
Itá Energética    307,502                        5,843    313,345 
CSN Energia    63,085                        (314)   62,771 
                 
    370,587                        5,529    376,116 
Mining                                 
ERSA    18,069                        (728)   17,341 
Nacional Minérios    5,072,461    157             835,115 (2)   (21,567) (1)   132,557    6,018,723 
Pelotização Minérios    5,729                        86    5,815 
Pelotização Nacional    998                            998 
                 
    5,097,257    157             835,115    (21,567)   131,915    6,042,877 
Cement                                 
CSN Cimentos    329,324                        (13,585)   315,739 
                 
Total MEP    12,831,984    175,282        (419,848)    835,115    (14,586)   332,884    13,740,831 
                 
Other investments    31                            31 
                 
Total Investments    12,832,015    175,282        (419,848)    835,115    (14,586)   332,884    13,740,862 
                 

(1) Adjustments in accordance with the rules of CPC 02 – classified into shareholders’ equity under translation accumulated adjustments.
(2) Equity pick up gain referring to the special goodwill reserve on reverse merger of Big Jump.

c) Additional Information on the main operating subsidiaries

• GALVASUD

Located in Porto Real, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, the Company has as its main corporate purpose all industrial, commercial and sales promotion activities related to: i) installation and operation of a steel products service center; ii) installation and operation of a hot-immersion galvanization line, iii) installation and operation of laser welding lines for the production of welded blanks destined for the automobile production; iv) just-in-time supply to the automotive industry; and v) promotion and sales of the products of the Company and of third parties, shareholders inclusively, to the automotive industry.

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• INAL NORDESTE

Based in Camaçari, State of Bahia, the Company has as its main purpose to reprocess and distribute the CSN steel products, operating as a service and distribution center in the Northeast region of the country.

• COMPANHIA METALÚRGICA PRADA

Based in the city of São Paulo, Prada has branches in several states of the country and has as its main activities the rolled steel reprocessing and distribution, the manufacturing and trading of metallic products, manufacturing and trading of metallic packaging, as well as the import and export of these products.

On December 30, 2008, in order to achieve greater synergy, optimization of operations, cost reduction and, also, become more efficient, Prada incorporated the net assets of Indústria Nacional de Aços Laminados – INAL.

• CIA. METALIC NORDESTE

The Company, with its head office located in Maracanaú, State of Ceará, has as its main corporate purpose the manufacturing of metallic packaging destined to the beverage industry.

Its operation unit can be characterized as one of the world’s most modern ones and counts on two different production lines: the can production line, whose raw material is tin-coated steel, supplied by the parent company CSN, and the lid production line, whose raw material is aluminum.

Its production is mainly geared towards the Brazilian northern and northeastern markets, with the surplus production of lids sold abroad.

The subsidiary received an incentive from PROVIN – Incentive Program for the Companies’ Operations, established by the Government of the State of Ceará, main purpose of which is the promotion of the industrial development and job generation in that State.

• SEPETIBA TECON

Company whose objective is to exploit the No.1 Containers Terminal of the Itaguaí Port, located in Itaguaí, State of Rio de Janeiro. This terminal is linked to Presidente Vargas Steelworks by the Southeast railroad network, which is granted to MRS Logística.

Sepetiba Tecon was the winner of the auction that occurred on September 3, 1998 for the takeover of the terminal concession and this concession allows the exploitation of the aforementioned terminal for the term of 25 years, extendable for another term of 25 years.

• CSN ENERGIA

Its main purpose is distributing and trading the surplus electric power generated by CSN and by companies, consortiums or other entities in which Company holds an interest.

CSN Energia holds a balance receivable related to the electric power sales under the scope of the Electric Power Trade Chamber (“Câmara de Comercialização de Energia Elétrica”) – CCEE, in the amount of R$54,224 (R$54,224 as of June 30, 2009), which are due by concessionaires that present injunctions suspending the corresponding payments. Management understands that recording an allowance for doubtful accounts is not necessary in view of the judicial measures taken by the official entities of the sector.

• CSN CIMENTOS

Based in Volta Redonda, State of Rio de Janeiro, CSN Cimentos has the production and trading of cement as its purpose. CSN Cimentos use as one of its raw material the blast furnace slag from the pig iron production of the Presidente Vargas Steelworks. The company started to operate on May 14, 2009 and its results are also related to remaining expenditures deriving from activities discontinued in 2002, when the Company name was FEM – Projetos, Construções e Montagens.

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• ESTANHO DE RONDÔNIA - ERSA

Ersa is a subsidiary based in the State of Rondônia, where it operates two units, one in the city of Itapuã do Oeste and the other one in the city of Ariquemes.

The subsidiary’s mining operation for cassiterite (tin ore) is located in Itapuã do Oeste and the casting operation from which metallic tin is obtained, which is the raw material used in UPV for the production of tin plates, is located in Ariquemes.

d) Additional information on the main jointly-owned subsidiaries

The amounts of the balance sheet and of the statement of income of the companies whose control is shared are shown as follows. These amounts were consolidated in the Company’s quarterly information, in accordance with the interest described in item (a) of this note.

                9/30/2009                6/30/2009 
     
    NAMISA    TRANSNORDESTINA   MRS    ITASA    NAMISA   TRANSNORDESTINA    MRS    ITASA 
                 
Current assets    2,293,912    164,356    1,305,921    80,377    1,856,386    188,719    891,919    64,473 
Noncurrent assets    9,763,752    713,209    3,550,893    903,736    8,629,319    629,042    3,552,857    914,230 
   Long-term assets    8,492,230    43,847    685,728    5,237    7,377,204    40,591    673,503    5,151 
   Investments, property, plant and equipment and deferred charges    1,271,522    669,362    2,865,165    898,499    1,252,115    588,451    2,879,354    909,079 
                 
Total Assets    12,057,664    877,565    4,856,814    984,113    10,485,705    817,761    4,444,776    978,703 
                 
 
Current liabilities    244,667    50,649    1,150,813    111,334    349,410   39,352    858,930    103,988 
Noncurrent liabilities    1,781,790    417,321    1,745,120    230,019    1,682,192   364,387    1,803,152    243,941 
Shareholders’ equity    10,031,207    409,595    1,960,881    642,760    8,454,103   414,022    1,782,694    630,774 
                 
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity    12,057,664    877,565    4,856,814    984,113    10,485,705   817,761    4,444,776    978,703 
                 
 
 
                9/30/2009                9/30/2008 
     
    NAMISA    TRANSNORDESTINA   MRS    ITASA    NAMISA    TRANSNORDESTINA    MRS    ITASA 
                 
 
Net Revenue    963,667    47,259   1,669,874    170,318     414,225    41,744    2,329,405    156,589 
   Cost of goods sold and services rendered    (636,835)   (43,408)   (893,063)   (52,874)   (325,711)   (39,724)   (1,350,426)   (42,298)
                 
Gross income (loss)   326,832    3,851    776,811    117,444       88,514    2,020    978,979    114,291 
   Operating income (expenses)   (227,027)   (11,632)   (119,158)   (30,779)   (112,734)   (5,305)   (9,556)   (39,221)
   Net financial income    851,858    (12,090)   (42,286)   (19,046)      55,470    (12,654)   (254,395)   (35,629)
                 
Income (loss) before income and social contribution taxes    951,663    (19,871)   615,367    67,619       31,250    (15,939)   715,028    39,441 
   Current and deferred income and social contribution taxes    (298,321)       (206,313)   (22,919)      36,504    (1)   (253,981)   (13,349)
                 
Net income (loss) for the period    653,342    (19,871)   409,054    44,700       67,754    (15,940)   461,047    26,092 
                 

• NACIONAL MINÉRIOS – NAMISA

Headquartered in Congonhas, state of Minas Gerais, the NAMISA main purpose is the production, purchase and sale of iron ore. NAMISA sells its products mainly in the foreign market. NAMISA’s main operations are developed in the municipalities of Congonhas, Ouro Preto, Itabirito and Rio Acima, state of Minas Gerais, and in Itaguaí, state of Rio de Janeiro.

In December 2008, CSN sold 2,271,825 shares of the voting capital of Nacional Minérios S.A. (“NAMISA”) to Big Jump Energy Participações S.A. ("Big Jump"), whose shareholders are the companies Posco e Brazil Japan Iron Ore Corp (Itochu Corporation, JFE Steel Corporation, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., Kobe Steel Ltd., Nisshin Steel Co. Ltd., Nippon Steel). Subsequently to this sale, Big Jump subscribed new shares, paying in cash the total of US$3.041.473 thousand, corresponding to R$7,286,154 thousand, R$6,707,886 thousand of which were recorded as goodwill at the subscription of the shares.

Due to the new corporate structure of the jointly-owned subsidiary, in which Big Jump holds 40% and CSN 60% and, due to the shareholders’ agreement entered into between the parties, CSN consolidated NAMISA in a proportional manner.

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Continuing the restructuring process of Namisa, on July 30, 2009, the jointly-controlled subsidiary merged its parent company Big Jump Energy Participações S.A. Said merger did not change the company’s shareholding structure.

• TRANSNORDESTINA LOGÍSTICA

Transnordestina has as its main purpose the exploitation and development of the public rail cargo transport service for the Northeast network of Brazil.

Transnordestina entered into a concession agreement with the Federal Government on December 31, 1997 for a period of 30 years, extendable for another equal period. The agreement allows the development of the public service of exploitation of the northeast network which comprises seven States of the Federation in an extension of 4,534 km. The concession also comprises the lease of assets of Rede Ferroviária Federal S.A. (RFFSA) which serve this network and include, among others, constructions, permanent tracks, locomotives, railcars, vehicles, tracks and accessories.

• MRS LOGÍSTICA

The Company’s main purpose is to exploit, by onerous concession, the public rail cargo transport service in the right of way of the Southeast network, located in the stretch connecting Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, of Rede Ferroviária Federal S.A. - RFFSA, privatized on September 20, 1996. CSN paid in Namisa 10% of its interest in MRS, and decreased this direct interest from 32.93% to 22.93% .

In addition to this direct interest, the Company also holds an indirect interest of 6% through Nacional Minérios S.A. – Namisa, a proportionally consolidated company, and 4.3377% through International Investment Fund, which integrates the Company’s quarterly information as per the CPC Technical Pronouncement 02.

MRS may also exploit modal transportation services regarding the rail transport and take part in developments aiming at the extension of rail transport services granted.

To provide the services which are the purpose of the concession obtained for a 30-year period, as from December 1, 1996, and extendable for another equal period at the exclusive discretion of the grantor, MRS leased from RFFSA, for the same period of the concession, the assets necessary to operate and maintain rail cargo transportation activities.

• ITÁ ENERGÉTICA S.A. - ITASA

Itasa holds a 60.5% interest in the Itá Consortium, which was created for the exploitation of the Itá Hydroelectric Power Plant pursuant to the concession agreement of December 28, 1995, and its Addendum 1 dated July 31, 2000, entered into between the consortium holders (Itasa and Centrais Geradoras do Sul do Brasil - Gerasul, formerly called Tractebel Energia S.A.) and the Brazilian Agency for Electric Energy (ANEEL).

CSN holds 48.75% of the subscribed capital and the total amount of common shares issued by Itasa, a special purpose entity (SPE) originally established to make feasible the construction of the Itá Hydroelectric Power Plant, the contracting of the supply of goods and services necessary to carry out the venture and the obtainment of financing through the offering of the corresponding guarantees.

e) Additional information on indirect interests abroad

• COMPANHIA SIDERURGICA NACIONAL - LLC

Incorporated in 2001 with the assets and liabilities of the extinct Heartland Steel Inc., headquartered in Wilmington, State of Delaware – USA, it has an industrial plant in Terre Haute, State of Indiana – USA, where there is a complex comprising a cold rolling line, a hot pickling line for spools and a galvanization line. CSN LLC is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of CSN Panama.

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• LUSOSIDER

Incorporated in 1996 in succession to Siderurgia Nacional – a company privatized by the Portuguese government that year. Lusosider is the only Portuguese company of the steel sector to produce cold-re-rolled flat steel, with a corrosion-resistant coating. The company presents in Paio Pires an installed capacity of around 550 thousand tonnes/year to produce four large groups of steel products: galvanized plate, cold-rolled plate, pickled and oiled plate.

Products manufactured by Lusosider may be used in the packaging industry, civil construction (piping and metallic structures), and in home appliance components.

11. PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

    Consolidated 
   
    Depreciation, 
depletion and amortization 
rate (% p.a.)
  Cost    Accumulated    Residual value 
     
        depreciation, depletion
and amortization 
  9/30/2009       6/30/2009 
           
Machinery and equipment        7,573,558    (1,588,212)   5,985,346    6,074,073 
Mines and mineral deposits        5,332    (876)   4,456    4,563 
Buildings        1,514,466    (182,765)   1,331,701    1,352,973 
Furniture and fixtures        135,673    (113,418)   22,255    23,297 
Land        133,512        133,512    133,643 
Construction in progress        1,937,822        1,937,822    1,597,818 
Other assets        1,863,390    (550,105)   1,313,285    1,337,737 
           
        13,163,753    (2,435,376)   10,728,377    10,524,104 
           
        Parent Company 
     
Machinery and equipment    8.58    6,238,433    (1,150,965)   5,087,468    5,152,929 
Mines and mineral deposits    0.07    2,323    (3)   2,320    2,320 
Buildings    3.71    773,330    (52,725)   720,605    732,855 
Furniture and fixtures    10.00    111,808    (96,049)   15,759    16,363 
Land        90,111        90,111    89,409 
Construction in progress        1,186,212        1,186,212    982,641 
Other assets    20.00    256,092    (77,418)   178,674    179,350 
           
        8,658,309    (1,377,160)   7,281,149    7,155,867 
           

The changes made to property, plant and equipment between June 30 and September 30, 2009 are as follows:

    Consolidated 
   
    Net 
6/30/2009 
  Addition    Transfers    Write-offs    Other    Accumulated 
depreciation 
  Exchange 
Variation 
  Net 
9/30/2009 
                 
In use    8,926,286    94,276    44,466    (17,920)   (41,407)   (198,534)   (16,612)   8,790,555 
Equipment and facilities    6,074,073    32,270    60,258    (18,376)     (151,052)   (11,832)   5,985,346 
Mines and mineral deposits    4,563                    (107)       4,456 
Buildings    1,352,973    18    (5,374)       308    (13,448)   (2,776)   1,331,701 
Storehouses    166,839    42,927    (1,107)       (41,655)           167,004 
Furniture    23,297    153        (23)       (1,046)   (126)   22,255 
Land    133,643    672    30                (833)   133,512 
Hardware    24,783    826    (2)   (134)       (1,867)   (83)   23,523 
Other    1,146,115    17,410    (9,339)   613    (65)   (31,014)   (962)   1,122,758 
Work in progress    1,597,818    311,014    (44,615)   (21,908)   96,061        (548)   1,937,822 
Total property, plant and equipment    10,524,104    405,290    (149)   (39,828)   54,654    (198,534)   (17,160)   10,728,377 
Intangible assets (see Note 12)   504,981    416    149        (39,462)   (1,860)       464,224 
                 
Total    11,029,085    405,706        (39,828)   15,192    (200,394)   (17,160)   11,192,601 
                 

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    Parent Company 
   
    Net 
6/30/2009 
  Addition    Transfers    Write-offs    Other    Accumulated 
depreciation 
  Net 
9/30/2009 
               
In use    6,173,226    71,796    49,783    (17,346)   (41,360)   (141,162)   6,094,937 
Equipment and facilities    5,152,929    27,879    56,241    (17,949)   (62)   (131,570)   5,087,468 
Mines and mineral deposits    2,320                        2,320 
Buildings    732,855        (5,374)       308    (7,184)   720,605 
Storehouses    166,745    42,814    (1,107)       (41,606)       166,846 
Furniture    16,363    95                (699)   15,759 
Land    89,409    672    30                90,111 
Hardware    14,056    246        (11)       (1,064)   13,227 
Other    (1,451)   90    (7)   614        (645)   (1,399)
Work under construction    982,641    179,582    (49,825)   (21,337)   95,151        1,186,212 
Total property, plant and equipment    7,155,867    251,378    (42)   (38,683)   53,791    (141,162)   7,281,149 
Intangible assets (see Note 12)   90,482        42            (972)   89,552 
               
Total    7,246,349    251,378        (38,683)   53,791    (142,134)   7,370,701 
               

The loan costs that were capitalized in the Parent Company amounted to R$56,687 (R$81,776 as of September 30, 2008) and R$59,353 (R$85,771 as of September 30, 2008) in the consolidated. These costs are determined on the financing contracts for the mining, cement and long steel projects.

The Company analyzed the circumstances to verify if there was a possibility of impairment, and based on the analyses performed it did not identify any evidence that the residual book value of the assets or groups of assets was recorded at a value higher than the recovery value, in accordance with its the cash generating units.

As of September 30, 2009, the assets provided as collateral for financial operations totaled R$47,985 (R$47,985 as of June 30, 2009).

12. INTANGIBLE ASSETS

    Consolidated 
   
                    Residual value 
           
    Useful life 
terms 
  Amortization 
annual rates % 
  Cost    Accumulated 
amortization 
  9/30/2009    6/30/2009 
             
Software    05 years    20    48,504    (22,972)   25,532    26,826 
Goodwill from expected                         
future profitability            753,917    (315,225)   438,692    478,155 
             
            802,421    (338,197)   464,224    504,981 
             
 
    Parent Company 
   
                    Residual value 
           
    Useful life 
terms 
  Amortization 
annual rates % 
  Cost    Accumulated 
amortization 
  9/30/2009    6/30/2009 
             
Software    05 years    20    20,172    (7,221)   12,951    13,881 
Goodwill from expected                         
future profitability            283,528    (206,927)   76,601    76,601 
             
            303,700    (214,148)   89,552    90,482 
             

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Software: This is valued at the cost of acquisition, less accumulated amortization and, when applicable, less impairment losses.

Goodwill: The goodwill economic basis is the expected future profitability and, in accordance with the new pronouncements, these amounts are not amortized in the accounting as from January 1, 2009, when they started to be subject only to impairment tests.

         
        Tax benefit as per CVM Instruction 349/01         
         
    Balance at            Transfer related to    Balance at     
Goodwill on investments    6/30/2009    Provision    Equity pick-up    deferred IR/CSLL    9/30/2009     Investor 
             
Parent Company                         
Galvasud            13,091        13,091    CSN 
Prada            63,509        63,509    CSN 
Subtotal parent company            76,600        76,600     
Galvasud                         
   CSN I (*)   19,837    (13,091)       (6,745)       GalvaSud 
Prada                         
   Inal (*)   86,412    (63,509)       (22,903)       Prada 
   Onomatopéia    9,814            (9,814)       Prada 
NAMISA                         
   CFM    339,637                339,637    Namisa 
   Cayman do Brasil    7,481                7,481    Namisa 
ITASA    14,974                14,974    CSN 
             
Total consolidated    478,155    (76,600)   76,600    (39,462)   438,692     
             

(*) Recording of provision in the merging company to reflect the adjustments set forth in CVM Instruction 349/01.

13. DEFERRED CHARGES

In compliance with Law 11,638/07 and the CPC Technical Pronouncement 13, the Company maintains a record of the remaining balance of deferred assets referring to pre-operating expenses recognized up to December 31, 2007.

These assets will be kept in the Company’s accounting up to their total amortization and/or write-off due to impairment. As of September 30, 2009, the balance of these assets was R$29,991 (R$31,587 as of June 30, 2009) in the Parent Company and R$35,695 (R$38,040 as of June 30, 2009) in the consolidated.

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14. LOANS, FINANCING AND DEBENTURES

    Consolidated    Parent Company 
     
    Current liabilities    Noncurrent liabilities    Current liabilities    Noncurrent liabilities 
         
    9/30/2009    6/30/2009    9/30/2009    6/30/2009    9/30/2009    6/30/2009    9/30/2009    6/30/2009 
                 
FOREIGN CURRENCY                                 
Long-term loans                                 
   ACC    1,218,994    1,920,560            1,218,994    1,920,560         
   Pre-payment    239,741    256,065    2,097,143    1,898,808    461,665    390,832    3,799,535    3,827,673 
   Perpetual Bonds    26,746    29,355    1,333,575    1,463,700    26,746    29,355    1,333,575    1,463,700 
   Fixed Rate Notes    49,853    42,728    3,022,770    1,854,020    797,511    53,736    4,089,630    3,754,340 
   Import Financing    72,613    78,580    142,000    159,640    61,161    65,725    64,858    73,839 
   BNDES/Finame    19,745    17,494    81,819    94,452    17,448    15,768    73,447    85,442 
   Other noncurrent liabilities    64,821    225,523    135,803    153,042    92,208    91,008    76,473    91,654 
                 
    1,692,513    2,570,305    6,813,110    5,623,662    2,675,733    2,566,984    9,437,518    9,296,648 
                 
LOCAL CURRENCY                                 
Long-term loans                                 
   BNDES/Finame    273,850    250,749    1,509,196    1,568,658    179,071    161,135    898,099    941,338 
   Debentures    18,255    35,279    628,665    628,665    8,422    26,172    600,000    600,000 
   Pre-payment    3,931    1,604    1,400,000    100,000    3,931    1,604    1,400,000    100,000 
   CCB    23,272        2,000,000        23,272        2,000,000     
   Other noncurrent liabilities    17,276    21,187    94,490    89,776    1,564    6,395    8,590    3,849 
                 
    336,584    308,819    5,632,351    2,387,099    216,260    195,306    4,906,689    1,645,187 
                 
Total loans and financing    2,029,097    2,879,124    12,445,461    8,010,761    2,891,993    2,762,290    14,344,207    10,941,835 
                 
Derivatives    368,899    62,973    18,465    10,389    2,047    2,089         
Transacion costs    (27,909)   (9,026)   (66,118)   (15,546)   (27,731)   (8,864)   (64,665)   (13,930)
                 
Total loans, financing, derivatives and transaction costs    2,370,087    2,933,071    12,397,808    8,005,604    2,866,309    2,755,515    14,279,542    10,927,905 
                 

As of September 30, 2009, funding transaction costs are as follows:

    Consolidated 
   
    Short-term    Long-term    IR (1)   IRR (2)
         
Fixed rate notes    4,764    5,519    6.88% up to 10%    10.01% up to 10.7% 
BNDES    1,856    9,334    1.3% up to 3.2%    1.44% up to 9.75% 
Pre-payment    6,062    23,945    6.25% up to 8.62%    6.75% up to 10.08% 
CCB    13,667    26,194    117,5% CDI    11.33% 
Other    1,560    1,126    103,6% CDI    12.59% 
         
Total    27,909    66,118         
         

    Parent Company 
   
    Short-term    Long-term    IR (1)   IRR (2)
         
Fixed rate notes    4,764    5,519    9.5% up to 10%    10.01% up to 10.7% 
BNDES    1,856    8,710    1.3% up to 3.2%    1.44% up to 9.75% 
Pre-payment    5,884    23,116    6.25% up to 8.62%    6.75% up to 10.08% 
CCB    13,667    26,194    117,5% CDI    11.33% 
Other    1,560    1,126    103,6% CDI    12.59% 
         
Total    27,731    64,665         
         

(1) IR – contracted annual interest rate
(2) IRR – annual internal return rate

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As of September 30, 2009, funding transaction costs to be recorded in the result for subsequent periods are presented as follows.

    Consolidated 
   
    2010    2011    2012    2013    2014    After 2014 
             
Fixed rate notes    1,492    1,200    1200    499    333    794 
BNDES    2,669    1,980    1968    614    300    1802 
Pre-payment    7,494    6,018    6018    4356    59     
CCB    17,083    9,111                 
Other    938    187                 
 
    Parent Company 
   
    2010    2011    2012    2013    2014   After 2014 
             
Fixed rate notes    1,492    1,200    1200    499    333    794 
BNDES    2,320    1,856    1856    577    300    1802 
Pre-payment    7,256    5,840    5840    4178         
CCB    17,083    9,111                 
Other    938    187                 

As of September 30, 2009, the principal of long-term loans, financing and debentures presents the following composition, by year of maturity:

    Consolidated    Parent Company 
     
2010    223,120    1.8%    236,722    1.7% 
2011    1,804,223    14.5%    1,801,429    12.6% 
2012    3,479,511    27.9%    3,467,928    24.2% 
2013    2,260,705    18.1%    2,337,146    16.3% 
2014    754,170    6.1%    944,064    6.6% 
After 2014    2,608,622    20.9%    4,223,343    29.4% 
Perpetual Bonds    1,333,575    10.7%    1,333,575    9.3% 
         
    12,463,926    100.0%    14,344,207    100.0% 
         

Loans, financing and debentures are subject to interest, annual rates of which, as of September 30, 2009, are presented as follows:

    Consolidated    Parent Company 
     
    Local Currency    Foreign Currency    Local Currency    Foreign Currency 
         
Up to 7%    171,776    5,040,365        6,364,370 
From 7.1 to 9%    785,521    258,629    488,831    1,190,870 
From 9.1 to 11%    1,317,805    3,149,453    1,206,914    4,558,011 
Above 11%    248,071    53,401         
Derivatives        387,364        2,047 
Variable    3,445,762    3,775    3,427,204     
         
    5,968,935    8,892,987    5,122,949    12,115,298 
         
        14,861,922        17,238,247 
         

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Percentage composition of total loans, financing and debentures, by currency/index of origin:

    Consolidated    Parent Company 
     
    9/30/2009    6/30/2009    9/30/2009    6/30/2009 
         
Local Currency                 
   CDI    27.70    7.36    23.41    5.31 
   IGPM    0.26    0.34         
   TJLP    12.02    16.64    6.25    8.04 
   IGP-DI    0.07    0.09    0.06    0.07 
   Other indexes    0.12    0.17         
    40.17    24.60    29.72    13.42 
         
Foreign Currency                 
   US dollar    57.18    74.75    66.12    81.22 
   Yen            4.15    5.34 
   Euro    0.04    0.08         
   Other currencies    2.61    0.57    0.01    0.02 
    59.83    75.40    70.28    86.58 
         
    100.00    100.00    100.00    100.00 
         

In July 2005, the Company issued perpetual bonds amounting to US$750 million through its subsidiary CSN Islands X Corp. These indefinite maturity bonds pay 9.5% p.a. and the Company has the right to settle the transaction at its face value after 5 years, on the maturity dates for the interest. Up to the closure of this quarterly information, the Company’s Management did not intend to settle this operation in the foreseeable future.

The guarantees provided for loans comprise fixed asset items, sureties, bank guarantees and securitization operations (exports), as shown in the following table and do not include the guarantees provided to subsidiaries and jointly-owned subsidiaries mentioned in Note 18.

    9/30/2009    6/30/2009 
     
Property, plant and equipment    47,985    47,985 
Personal guarantee    75,370    81,751 
Imports    50,648    57,524 
Securitizations (exports)   249,219    117,841 
     
    423,222    305,101 
     

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The following tables show the amortization and funding in the current period:

Amortization 
 
Company    Description    Principal (million)   Payment date    Interest rate (p.a.)
         
CSN    BNDES    $16    Feb / 2009    2.20% up to 3.20% 
CSN    Debentures    $41    Feb / 2009    103.6% CDI (4th issue)
CSN    BNDES    $5    Mar / 2009    2.20% up to 3.20% 
CSN    BNDES    $28    Apr up to Jun / 2009    2.20% up to 3.20% 
CSN    Pre-payment of third parties    $6    May / 2009    CDI 
CSN Cimentos    BNDES    $2    May / 2009    2.70 and 3.20% 
CSN Cimentos    BNDES    $5    Jul up to Sep / 2009    2.70 and 3.20% 
CSN    BNDES    $23    Jul up to Sep / 2009    2.20% up to 3.20% 
CSN    Debentures    $31    Aug / 2009    103.6% CDI (4th issue)
         
Total amortization in R$    $157         
         
Island IX    Fixed Rate Notes    US$39    Jan / 2009    9.50 and 10.5% 
CSN    BNDES    US$1    Jan / 2009    1.70% and 2.70% 
CSN    ACC    US$7    Jan / 2009    6.00% 
CSN    Pre-payment of third parties    US$2    Jan / 2009    5.65% and 6.43% 
CSN Export    Pre-payment of third parties    US$28    Feb / 2009    7.28% and 7.43% 
CSN    Loans from third parties    US$1    Feb / 2009    6.24% 
CSN    Pre-payment of third parties    US$10    Feb / 2009    5.19% and 5.81% 
CSN    Pre-payment of third parties    US$2    Mar / 2009    4.78% up to 6.04% 
CSN    ACC    US$21    Mar / 2009    3.25% 
CSN    Equipment import    US$1    Mar / 2009    5.00% up to 8.40% 
CSN    Pre-payment of third parties    US$2.5    Apr up to Jun / 2009    1.87% up to 5.65% 
CSN    ACC    US$126    Apr up to Jun / 2009    4.35% up to 8.00% 
CSN    BNDES    US$1.6    Apr up to Jun / 2009    1.7% and 2.7% 
CSN    Loans from third parties    US$3    Apr up to Jun / 2009    6.30% 
CSN    Equipment import    US$3    Apr up to Jun / 2009    6.3% up to 8.5% 
Island X    Fixed Rate Notes    US$18    Apr / 2009    9.50 and 10.5% 
CSN Export    Pre-payment of third parties    US$28    Apr / 2009    7.28% and 7.43% 
Cinnabar    Loans from third parties    US$1    Apr / 2009    4.49% 
Island VIII    Fixed Rate Notes    US$27    Jun / 2009    9.75% 
Island IX    Fixed Rate Notes    US$21    Jul / 2009    10.50% 
Island X    Fixed Rate Notes    US$18    Jul / 2009    9.50% 
CSN    BNDES    US$2    Jul up to Sep / 2009    1.70% and 2.70% 
CSN    ACC    US$82    Jul / 2009    4.58% up to 4.68% 
CSN    Pre-payment of third parties    US$2    Jul / 2009    1.58% and 5.02% 
CSN    Pre-payment of third parties    US$9    Aug / 2009    1.5% up to 4.06% 
CSN    Loans from third parties    US$1    Aug / 2009    6.24% 
CSN Madeira    Loans from third parties    US$80    Aug / 2009    3.74% 
CSN Export    Pre-payment of third parties    US$57    Aug / 2009    7.28% and 7.43% 
CSN    ACC    US$320    Aug / 2009    4.45% up to 6.15% 
CSN    ACC    US$6    Sep / 2009    6.15% 
CSN    Pre-payment of third parties    US$1    Sep / 2009    1.41% up to 1.67% 
         
Total amortization in US$    US$921         
         

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Funding 
 
Company    Description    Principal(million)   Issue    Term    Maturity    Interestrate (p.a.)
             
CSN Cimentos    BNDES    $ 54    2/26/2009    5 years    2/17/2014    TJLP + 2.7% 
CSN    BNDES    $ 90    2/26/2009    5 years    2/17/2014    TJLP + 2.7% 
CSN    BNDES    $ 215    3/16/2009    18 years    12/15/2027    TJLP + 1.3% 
CSN    Third parties    $ 2,000    8/18/2009    3 years    8/20/2012    117,5% CDI 
CSN Cimentos    BNDES    $ 9    7/20/2009    5 years    2/17/2014    TJLP + 2.7% and 3.2% 
CSN    Pre-payment of third parties    $ 1,300    9/30/2009    5 years    9/30/2014    8.62% 
             
Total funding in R$    R$ 3,668                 
             
CSN Cimentos    BNDES    US$ 3    2/26/2009    5 years    4/15/2014    UM006 + 2.7% 
CSN    BNDES    US$ 24    2/26/2009    5 years    4/15/2014    UM006 + 2.7% to 3.2% 
CSN    ACC    US$ 25    3/16/2009    1 year    3/5/2010    4.35% 
CSN    ACC    US$ 75    5/26/2009    6 months    11/17/2009    2.75% 
CSN    Pre-payment of third parties    US$ 200    6/17/2009    5 years    6/16/2014    5.06% 
CSN    Pre-payment of third parties    US$ 30    7/24/2009    2 years    4/26/2011    3.95% 
CSN    Pre-payment of third parties    US$ 30    7/24/2009    2 years    10/24/2011    3.95% 
CSN    Pre-payment of third parties    US$ 20    7/31/2009    1 year    9/30/2010    3.13% 
CSN    Pre-payment of third parties    US$ 10    8/3/2009    3 years    4/30/2012    4.65% 
CSN    Pre-payment of third parties    US$ 75    8/13/2009    2 years    2/14/2011    3.55% 
CSN    Pre-payment of third parties    US$ 50    8/14/2009    2 years    6/30/2011    3.53% 
CSN    Pre-payment of third parties    US$ 50    8/14/2009    3 years    4/30/2012    4.58% 
Island XI    Fixed Rate Notes    US$ 750    9/21/2009    10 years    9/21/2019    6.88% 
CSN    ACC    US$ 100    9/30/2009    2 months    11/27/2009    0.80% 
             
Total funding in US$    US$ 1,442                 
             

a) Loans and financing with certain financial institutions have limiting contractual clauses (covenants) that are common in financial contracts in general, which the Company has properly complied with as of September 30, 2009. Some of the main covenants are informed as follows:

In export and import financing operations:

“The Company must maintain all authorizations necessary to comply with the obligations established in the contract.”

“The Company undertakes to export in an amount sufficient to cover the principal and interest added value due on the respective payment dates.”

In Export Credit Notes issued in favor of Banco do Brasil S.A. and Banco Nossa Caixa S.A.

“The Company undertakes to export steel products in general and/or iron ore in an amount sufficient to cover the principal of the operation.”

In financing obtained with the Brazilian Development Bank – BNDES

“The Company undertakes to prove the investment of own funds established in the project.”

“The Company undertakes not to promote acts or measures which may jeopardize or change the economic-financial equilibrium of the loan Beneficiary.”

Debenture issuances:

“The Company must immediately notify the Fiduciary Agent on the call for any general debenture holders’ meeting by the issuer.”

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b) The Company and its subsidiaries also assume covenants which are specific to certain contracts, but usual in operations of the same nature, which had also been complied with as of September 30, 2009. As follows: Covenants of the Company and subsidiaries for Eurobonds issued by its subsidiaries:

“In foreign currency and debt operations represented by securities traded on stock exchanges outside Brazil, the Company must not constitute guarantees on its assets, except for those allowed in the operation agreements, without simultaneously guaranteeing the notes.”

CSN Islands IX Corp., CSN Islands X Corp. CSN Islands XI Corp. (Eurobonds): “The issuer must not assume debts, except for those represented by the notes, or debts representing commissions, costs or indemnifications due in accordance with the established in the operation documentation.”

Company’s covenant in Bank Letter of Credit (“CCB”) with Caixa Econômica Federal:

“The Company shall maintain in the process of collection, at Caixa Econômica Federal, receivables in the amount of 25% of the operation’s outstanding balance.”

In covenants applicable to the Company’s subsidiaries:

CSN Export S.à.r.l (Securitization): “CSN Export must not assume debts except for those established in the operation documentation and debts resulting from law and which do not have a materially adverse effect.”

On July 2, 2009, CSN (1) notified the creditors of 2003-1 tranche notes on its irrevocable intention of performing the early redemption of such notes, settlement of which occurred on August 5 and (2) started a consent solicitation process with creditors related to the 2004-1 and 2005-1 tranche notes of the Securitization program, in order to obtain from the latter consent or waiver in relation to the following matters: (i) inclusion of iron ore receivables in the Securitization program; (ii) adoption of flexible dates for the performance of early redemption of notes; (iii) change in a few export coverage ratios provided for in the program; and (iv) disregard of Accumulation Events occurred in the 21st and 23rd quarters of the program, for possible characterization purposes of early amortization event. On August 5, 2009, the Bank of New York Mellon confirmed to have received the creditors’ consents for both tranches in sufficient amount to approve all the aforementioned matters. Notwithstanding having obtained said approvals, the Company’s temporary fund allocation this quarter (up to the amount corresponding to twice the debt service) to an account managed by the custodian bank (Accumulation Event in the amount of R$70,829) due to the insufficient level of exposure to comply with certain export coverage ratios in the 23rd quarter of the program (ended on April 30, 2009) shall be maintained until the Company resumes compliance with the coverage ratios originally provided for in the securitization program agreements.

Transnordestina (BNDES financing): “Transnordestina commits not to change, without prior and express authorization of BNDES, its share control.”

15. DEBENTURES

Fourth issue

As approved at the Board of Directors Meeting held on December 20, 2005 and ratified on April 24, 2006, the Company issued, on February 1, 2006, 60,000 non-convertible and unsecured debentures, in one single tranche, with a unit face value of R$10. These debentures were issued in the total issuance value of R$600,000. The credits from the negotiations with the financial institutions were received on May 3, 2006.

Compensation interest is applied on the face value of these debentures corresponding to 103.6% of the Clearing House for the Custody and Financial Settlement of Securities (Cetip) Interbank Deposit Certificate (CDI), and the maturity of the face value is scheduled for February 1, 2012, without early redemption option.

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The indentures of this debenture issue contain covenants – usual in this kind of operation – which have been duly complied with by the Company and are described below:

a) Provision of information: the Company must provide to the trustee any information that the latter may reasonably require the former in up to ten business days counting from the date of the respective requirement;

b) Audit: the Company must submit, pursuant to the law, its accounts and balance sheets to examination by an independent audit firm registered with CVM; and

c) General Debenture holders’ Meeting: it must immediately notify the trustee on the call for any General Meeting by the Issuer.

16. FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

I – Derivatives

a) Policies for the use of hedging derivatives

The Company’s financial policy reflects the liquidity parameters, credit and market risk approved by the Audit Committee and Board of Directors. The use of derivative instruments, with the purpose of preventing interest rate and foreign exchange rate fluctuations from having a negative impact on the Company’s balance sheet and statement of income, should comply with these same parameters. Pursuant to the Company’s internal rules, this financial investment policy was approved and is managed by the Board of Executive Officers.

As a routine, the Board of Executive Officers presents and discusses, at the meetings of the Board of Executive Officers and Board of Directors, the Company’s financial positions. Pursuant to the Bylaws, significant amount operations require previous approval by the Company’s Management. The use of other derivative instruments is subject to prior approval by the Board of Directors. In this context, considering that equity instruments historically present higher yield than fixed income instruments, and with the purpose of reducing third party capital cost, the Company contracted a total return equity swap operation on ADRs of its own issuance, which was settled on August 13, 2009.

In order to finance its activities, the Company often resorts to capital markets, either domestic or international ones, and due to the debt profile it seeks, part of the Company’s debt is pegged to foreign currency, mainly to the U.S. dollar, which motivates the Company to seek hedge for its indebtedness through derivative financial instruments.

In order to contract financial instruments and derivatives with the purpose of hedge in compliance with the structure of internal controls, the Company adopts the following policies:

• continuous ascertainment of the exchange exposure, which occurs by means of the assessment of assets and liabilities exposed to foreign currency, within the following terms: (i) accounts receivable and payable in foreign currency; (ii) cash and cash equivalents and debt in foreign currency;

• presentation of the Company’s financial position and foreign exchange exposure, as a routine, at meetings of the Board of Executive Officers and of the Board of Directors which approve this hedging strategy; and

• contracting of hedge derivative operations only with first-tier banks.

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The Company’s consolidated net exposure to the foreign exchange rate as of September 30, 2009 is shown as follows:

    Amounts in US$ thousand 
   
    9/30/2009 
   
Cash and cash equivalents abroad    1,912,995 
Accounts receivable - foreign market clients    218,595 
Advances to suppliers    95,202 
Inventories    117,353 
Securitization reserve fund    162,679 
Other assets    150,964 
   
Total assets    2,657,788 
Loans and financing    (4,646,524)
Suppliers    (184,191)
Other liabilities    (41,198)
   
Total liabilities    (4,871,913)
Gross exposure    (2,214,125)
   
Notional value of contracted derivatives (*)   2,451,750 
   
Net exposure    237,625 
   

(*) Exchange swap and U.S. futures contracts.

The results obtained with these operations are in accordance with the policies and strategies defined by the Company’s Management.

b) Main risks resulting from the Company’s operations

• Exchange rate risk

Although most of the Company’s revenues are denominated in Brazilian Reais, as of September 30, 2009, R$8,505,623 or 58% of the Company’s consolidated loans and financing were denominated in foreign currency (R$8,193,967 or 75% as of June 30, 2009). As a result, the Company is subject to variations in exchange and interest rates and it manages the risk of the fluctuations in the amounts in Brazilian Reais that will be necessary to pay the obligations in foreign currency using a number of financial instruments, including cash invested in dollar and derivatives (derivative contracts without financial leverage, such as foreign currency put and call option), mainly swaps and futures contracts.

• Interest rate risk

The Company has short and long-term liabilities, indexed to floating interest rates and inflation indexes. Due to this exposure, the Company may maintain derivatives to manage these risks better.

• Credit risk

The exposure to credit risk of financial institutions complies with the parameters established in the Company’s financial policy. The exposure to credit risk of our clients and suppliers complies with the parameters established by the Company’s credit policy.

Since part of the Companies’ funds is invested in Brazilian government bonds, there is also exposure to the Company’s credit risk.

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In order to mitigate market risks, as foreign exchange and interest rate, the Company’s Management contracts operations with derivatives, as shown below:

Exchange swap transactions

Exchange swap transactions aim to protect its liabilities denominated in foreign currency against the depreciation of the Real. The Company carried out swaps of its U.S. dollar-denominated liabilities, in which the Company will receive the difference between the exchange variation observed in the period plus interest rate which ranges between 4.35% and 9.00% p.a., multiplied by the notional value (long position) and pays interest based on the Interbank Deposit Certificate – CDI, on the amount in Reais of the notional value on the date of the contracting (short position). The notional value of these swaps as of September 30, 2009, was US$1,978,000 thousand (US$823,000 thousand as of June 30, 2009). The gains and losses from these contracts are directly related to exchange (dollar) and CDI fluctuations. These transactions are related to operations in the Brazilian over-the-counter market, primarily having first-tier financial institutions as counterparts, contracted within exclusive investment funds.

As of September 30, 2009, the position of these contracts is as follows:

a) Outstanding operations

    Notional value (US$ thousand)      Valuation - 2009     Valuation - 2008    Fair value (market) (R$thousand)   Amount payable or receivable 
      (R$ thousand)   (R$ thousand)     in the period (R$ thousand)
             
 Counterparts    9/30/2009    Operation maturity    9/30/2008    Operation  maturity    Long-termposition    Short-termposition    Long-term position    Short-term position    9/30/2009    9/30/2008    Amount receivable/ received    Amount payable/paid 
                         
Itau BBA    60,000    Nov-16-09    60,000    Nov-16-09    113,111    (158,705)   143,655    (147,212)   (45,594)   (3,557)       (42,037)
Itau BBA    18,000    Nov-19-09    18,000    Nov-19-09    33,438    (44,429)   42,454    (41,106)   (10,991)   1,348        (12,339)
Santander    30,000    Nov-30-09    30,000    Nov-30-09    57,566    (82,297)   72,984    (76,845)   (24,731)   (3,861)       (20,870)
Itau BBA    25,000    Dec-11-09    25,000    Dec-11-09    47,290    (65,409)   59,894    (60,596)   (18,119)   (702)       (17,417)
Goldman Sachs    10,000    Dec-11-09    10,000    Dec-11-09    18,783    (25,925)   23,790    (23,836)   (7,142)   (47)       (7,095)
Itau BBA    10,000    Dec-11-09            25,661    (18,349)           7,312        7,312     
Santander    25,000    Mar-5-10            45,780    (60,960)           (15,180)           (15,180)
Santander    1,000,000    Oct-1-09            1,773,980    (1,898,823)           (124,843)           (124,843)
Itau BBA    325,000    Oct-1-09            576,474    (617,119)           (40,645)           (40,645)
Goldman Sachs    150,000    Oct-1-09            266,104    (284,823)           (18,719)           (18,719)
Westlb    175,000    Oct-1-09            310,398    (332,294)           (21,896)           (21,896)
Goldman Sachs    50,000    Oct-1-09            88,693    (94,941)           (6,248)           (6,248)
Itau BBA    100,000    Nov-27-09            176,731    (179,254)           (2,523)           (2,523)
 
                         
    1,978,000        143,000        3,534,009    (3,863,328)   342,777    (349,595)   (329,319)   (6,819)   7,312    (329,812)
                         

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b) Settled operations

        Notional value US$ thousand    Valuation - 2009 (R$ thousand)        Valuation - 2008(R$ thousand)   Fair value (market) (R$ thousand)   Amount payable or receivable in the period (R$ thousand)
                       
Date of settlement     Counterparts    2009    2008    Long-term position    Short-term position    Long-term position    Short-term position    2009    2008    Amount receivable/ received    Amount payable/paid 
                       
Jan-2-09    Itau BBA    150,000    150,000    356,273    (296,669)   355,456    (296,518)   59,604    58,938    666     
Jan-2-09    Santander    5,000    5,000    11,707    (11,795)   11,680    (11,789)   (88)   (109)   21     
Jan-2-09    Santander    50,000    50,000    116,990    (117,951)   116,722    (117,891)   (961)   (1,169)   208     
Jan-2-09    Santander    47,000    47,000    110,039    (110,874)   109,787    (110,818)   (835)   (1,031)   196     
Jan-2-09    Itau BBA    400,000    400,000    934,883    (943,609)   932,738    (943,131)   (8,726)   (10,393)   1,667     
Jan-2-09    Itau BBA    50,000    50,000    116,902    (117,951)   116,633    (117,892)   (1,049)   (1,259)   210     
Jan-2-09    itau BBA    50,000    50,000    116,933    (117,951)   116,665    (117,892)   (1,018)   (1,227)   209     
Jan-2-09    itau BBA    50,000    50,000    116,881    (117,951)   116,613    (117,892)   (1,070)   (1,279)   209     
Jan-2-09    itau BBA    58,000    58,000    134,569    (135,644)   134,260    (135,575)   (1,075)   (1,315)   240     
Jan-2-09    itau BBA    50,000    50,000    118,277    (117,570)   118,006    (117,510)   707    496    211     
Jan-13-09(1)   ABN Amro    20,000    20,000    48,059    (37,412)   48,190    (37,261)   10,647    10,929        (282)
Jan-23-09(2)   Itau BBA    60,000    60,000    145,828    (100,378)   143,360    (99,570)   45,450    43,790    1,660     
Jan-23-09(6)   Santander    30,000    30,000    72,634    (71,874)   71,369    (71,230)   760    139    621     
Jan-23-09(6)   Santander    10,000    10,000    24,303    (24,160)   23,879    (23,938)   143    (59)   202     
Jan-27-09(3)   ABN Amro    30,000    30,000    71,715    (49,965)   71,650    (49,515)   21,750    22,135        (385)
Jan-26-09(4)   Santander    10,000    10,000    23,887    (17,136)   23,823    (16,989)   6,751    6,834        (83)
Jan-26-09(5)   Itau BBA    20,000    20,000    47,857    (34,834)   47,853    (34,399)   13,023    13,454        (431)
Jan-2-09(6)   Itau BBA    10,000    10,000    24,693    (24,340)   23,790    (23,807)   353    (17)   370     
Jan-2-09(6)   Goldmam Sachs    20,000    20,000    49,549    (48,737)   47,579    (47,673)   812    (93)   905     
Jan-3-09(5)   Itau BBA    80,000    80,000    199,182    (140,520)   191,413    (137,598)   58,662    53,815    4,847     
Apr-20-09    Itau BBA    40,000    40,000    45,674    (49,386)   48,348    (47,719)   (3,712)   629        (4,341)
Jul-31-09    Itau BBA    20,000        39,383    (35,324)   47,780    (33,220)   4,059    14,560        (10,501)
Jul-1-09    Santander    50,000        99,391    (97,634)           1,757        1,757     
Jul-1-09    Santander    50,000        97,645    (99,391)           (1,746)           (1,746)
Jul-1-09    Santander    50,000        97,635    (97,492)           143        143     
Jul-1-09    Santander    50,000        97,653    (97,618)           35        35     
Jul-1-09    Santander    15,000        29,296    (29,327)           (31)           (31)
Jul-1-09    Santander    20,000        39,061    (38,982)           79        79     
Jul-1-09    Santander    15,000        29,295    (29,207)           88        88     
Jul-1-09    Itau BBA    10,000        19,531    (19,594)           (63)           (63)
Jul-1-09    Santander    15,000        29,300    (29,377)           (77)           (77)
Jul-1-09    Westlb    10,000        19,525    (19,559)           (34)           (34)
Jul-1-09    Santander    50,000        97,680    (98,278)           (598)           (598)
Jul-1-09    Santander    50,000        97,701    (98,147)           (446)           (446)
Jul-1-09    Santander    10,000        19,529    (19,783)           (254)           (254)
Jul-1-09    Santander    20,000        39,065    (39,435)           (370)           (370)
Jul-1-09    Westlb    20,000        39,055    (39,575)           (520)           (520)
Jul-1-09    Westlb    20,000        39,061    (39,344)           (283)           (283)
Jul-1-09    Santander    25,000        48,823    (49,009)           (186)           (186)
Aug-14-09    ABN Amro    95,000    95,000    182,568    (174,975)   226,869    (163,809)   7,594    63,060        (55,466)
Aug-24-09    ABN Amro    50,000    50,000    95,922    (91,389)   119,144    (85,309)   4,533    33,835        (29,302)
Aug-3-09    Santander    425,000        796,825    (833,659)           (36,833)           (36,833)
Aug-3-09    Westlb    135,000        253,052    (263,112)           (10,060)           (10,060)
Aug-3-09    Itau BBA    165,000        309,277    (323,751)           (14,474)           (14,474)
Aug-3-09    Goldman Sachs    10,000        18,751    (19,154)           (403)           (403)
Sep-1-09    Goldman Sachs    10,000        18,893    (18,950)           (57)           (57)
Sep-1-09    Santander    895,500        1,691,235    (1,689,225)           2,010        2,010     
Sep-1-09    Westlb    15,000        28,360    (28,517)           (157)           (157)
Sep-1-09    Itau BBA    500,000        943,967    (942,774)           1,193        1,193     
Sep-1-09    Goldman Sachs    20,000        37,757    (36,750)           1,007        1,007     
                       
        4,060,500    1,385,000    8,242,072    (8,086,039)   3,263,607    (2,958,945)   156,033    304,663    18,754    (167,384)
                       

(1) Early settlement – original maturity March 16, 2009
(2) Early settlement – original maturity July 24, 2009
(3) Early settlement – original maturity July 27, 2009
(4) Early settlement – original maturity August 03, 2009
(5) Early settlement – original maturity August 13, 2009
(6) Early settlement – original maturity December 11, 2009

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The net position of the aforementioned contracts is recorded in a specific derivative account in the loans and financing group as loss in the amount of R$329,319 as of September 30, 2009 (loss of R$35,303 as of June 30, 2009) and its effects are recognized in the Company’s financial result as loss in the amount of R$471,128. The jointly-owned subsidiary MRS Logística has derivative (swap) operations which caused proportional losses to the Company’s interest, in the amount of R$61,056 in income, in the consolidated of CSN as of September 30, 2009.

Libor x CDI Swap transactions

The purpose of these transactions is to hedge liabilities indexed to US Dollar Libor from Brazilian interest rate fluctuations. The Company has basically executed swaps of its liabilities indexed to Libor, in which it receives interest of 1.25% p.a. on the notional value in dollar (long position) and pays 96% of the Interbank Deposit Certificate – CDI on the notional value in Reais on the date of the contracting (short position). The notional value of these swaps as of September 30, 2009 was US$150,000 thousand, hedging an export pre-payment operation in the same amount. The gains and losses from these contracts are directly related to exchange (dollar), Libor and CDI fluctuations. They are related to operations in the Brazilian over-the-counter market, in general, having first-tier financial institutions as counterparts.

As of September 30, 2009, the position of these contracts is as follows:

a) Outstanding operations

        Notional    Valuation - 2009 (R$ thousand)   Fair value    Amount payable or 
        value US$      (market) (R$    receivable in the period 
        thousand      thousand)   (R$ thousand)
               
Date of                         
maturity     Counterparts    9/30/2009    Long-term   Short-term    9/30/2009    Amount payable 
               
Nov-12-09    CSFB    150,000    254,927    (256,974)   (2,047)   (2,047)

b) Settled operations

        Notional value US$ thousand    Valuation - 2009 (R$ thousand)   Valuation - 2008 (R$ thousand)   Fair value (market) (R$ thousand)    
                         
Date of settlement     Counterparts    9/30/2009    9/30/2008    Long-term    Short-term    Long-term    Short-term    9/30/2009    9/30/2008    Amount paid 
                       
Feb-12-09    CSFB    150,000    150,000    257,290    (262,062)   256,524    (258,398)   (4,772)   (1,874)   (2,898)
May-12-09    CSFB    150,000        256,121    (260,398)           (4,277)       (4,277)
Aug-12-09    CSFB    150,000        255,783    (259,894)           (4,111)       (4,111)
                     
                769,194    (782,354)   256,524    (258,398)   (13,160)   (1,874)   (11,286)
                     

The net position of the aforementioned contracts is recorded in a specific derivative account in the loans and financing group as loss in the amount of R$2,047 as of September 30, 2009 (loss of R$2,089 as of June 30, 2009) and its effects are recognized in the Company’s financial result as loss in the amount of R$13,333.

Real-U.S. Dollar Commercial Exchange Rate Futures Contract

It seeks to hedge foreign-denominated liabilities against the Real devaluation. The Company may buy or sell commercial U.S. dollar futures contracts on the Commodities and Futures Exchange (BM&F) to mitigate the foreign currency exposure of its US dollar-denominated liabilities. The specifications of the Real-U.S. dollar exchange rate futures contract, including detailed explanation on the contracts’ characteristics and calculation of daily adjustments, are published by BM&F and disclosed on its website (www.bmf.com.br). As of September 30, 2009, the Company had a long position in its exclusive investment fund of US$473,750 thousand. During the year, the Company paid R$1,142,591 and received R$940,609 in adjustments, thus having a loss of R$201,981. Gains and losses from these contracts are directly related to the currency fluctuations.

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As of September 30, 2009, the position of these operations is as follows:

    Notional value US$             
    thousand    Fair value    Amount payable or receivable in the period 
       
 Description    9/30/2009    9/30/2009    Amount received in R$    Amount paid in R$ 
         
Purchase commitment                 
Foreign currency (US Dollar* AUG-                 
09 BMF)   473,750    (10,332)   940,609    (1,142,591)

II – Methods and assumptions used to calculate and measure financial instruments - derivatives

Foreign exchange swap transactions, Libor x CDI swap transactions

The Company uses an exclusive fund for its foreign exchange swap operations. The fund’s manager, Banco BTG Pactual, calculates and discloses the market value of the fund assets (NAV – Net Asset Value) on a daily basis, using the following pricing methodology to ascertain the market value of the foreign exchange swap.

Dollar

Pricing Methodology

The first step in order to calculate the swap is to correct its notional financial value at the foreign exchange rate variation.


The second step consists of calculating which value the corrected notional value would have on the maturity date.


The third and last stage of the calculation is to carry the swap value on the maturity date to the calculation date.


Combining all steps in one single equation we would have the following:


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Where:     
 
FinSwapcalc    Swap’s financial value on calculation date 
FinNocSwap    Swap’s notional financial value (initial financial value)
FinNocSwapcorr    Swap’s notional financial value restated to calculation date 
FinSwapvcto    Swap’s estimated financial value on maturity 
PtaxVcalc    Sale PTAX800 on calculation date. Source: BC 
PtaxVini    Sale PTAX800 on initial swap date. Source: BC 
DCvcto.ini    Days elapsed between initial swap and maturity 
DCvcto.hoje    Days elapsed between initial swap and calculation date 
i    Swap’s remuneration rate 
tx    Current market foreign exchange coupon rate. Primary Source: BM&F 

The rates used for all swaps are the ones disclosed by BM&F. In their absence, or in situations of liquidity squeeze or systemic crisis situations, coupons of the government bonds of each of the respective indexes are used as a notion for calculation. In the absence of the rate for the specific vertex to be calculated, the BM&F interpolated rates are used.

The Libor x CDI swap was directly contracted by the Company and, therefore, its market value was calculated as follows:

The data sources for the mark-to-market of these instruments are the following: BBA (British Bankers Association), BM&F, BOVESPA and CETIP, and all data were taken from Bloomberg.

III – Sensitivity analysis

For the following operations, based on the foreign exchange rate as of September 30, 2009 of R$1.7781 per US$1.00, adjustments to the swap contract amounts were estimated for three scenarios: scenario 1: rate of R$1.7802 per US$1.00; scenario 2: (25% devaluation) rate of R$1.3336 per US$1.00; scenario 3: (50% devaluation) rate of R$0.8891 per US$1.00.

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    9/30/2009 
   
 
    Risk    Scenario    US$ Notional 
value 
  Exchange rate    Additional result 
 R$ 
           
 
Exchange Swap    U.S. Dollar devaluation    1*    1,978,000    1.7802    4,203 
              1.3336    (879,270)
              0.8891    (1,758,541)
 
Swap CDI vs. Libor    U.S. Dollar devaluation    1*    150,000    1.7802    319 
              1.3336    (66,679)
              0.8891    (133,358)
 
U.S. dollar futures    U.S. Dollar devaluation    1*    473,750    1.7802    1,007 
              1.3336    (210,594)
              0.8891    (421,187)
 
Consolidated exchange position    U.S. Dollar devaluation      237,625    1.7802    505 
(including the foreign exchange derivatives above)         1.3336    (105,630)
              0.8891    (211,261)

(*) Source: U.S. Dollar futures closing rate of October 2009 on September 30, 2009.

The scenarios of devaluation of the Real versus the Dollar would increase losses in the operations.

IV – Classification of financial instruments

    9/30/2009    6/30/2009 
     
Consolidated - R$ thousand    Balances    Fair value 
through profit 
and loss 
  Loans and 
receivables - 
effective interest 
rate 
  Balances   Fair value 
through income 
  Loans and 
receivables - 
Effective interest 
rate 
           
Assets                         
Current liabilities                         
 Cash and cash equivalents    8,908,544    8,908,544        6,080,881    6,080,881     
 Net accounts receivable    1,124,115        1,144,115    1,078,748        1,078,748 
 Advances to suppliers    227,066        227,066    355,525        355,525 
 Guarantee (margin) of financial instruments                1,384,382    1,384,382     
Noncurrent                         
 Marketable securities                         
 Other securities receivable    122,179        126,646    133,079        133,079 
Liabilities                         
Current liabilities                         
 Loans and financing    1,982,933        1,982,933    2,845,521        2,845,521 
 Debentures    18,255        18,255    35,279        35,279 
 Derivatives    358,567    358,567        52,271    52,271     
 Suppliers    581,799        581,799    1,325,743        1,325,743 
 Advances to clients    105,204        105,204    65,295        65,295 
 Salaries and social contribution    156,536        156,536    130,061        130,061 
 Equity sw ap financial instrument                733,939    733,939     
 Dividends, Interest on shareholders' equity and profit sharing    323,597        323,597    256,646        256,646 
Noncurrent                         
 Loans and financing    11,750,678        11,750,678    7,366,550        7,366,550 
 Debentures    628,665        628,665    628,665        628,665 
 Derivatives    18,465    18,465        10,389    10,389     

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17. FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS ASSOCIATED TO OTHER FINANCIAL ASSET PRICE FLUCTUATION RISKS

Total return equity swap contracts

On August 13, 2009, the Company presettled the total return equity swap operation contracted as of September 5, 2008, as approved by the Board of Directors on July 8, 2009:

Issuance date    Agreement maturity date    Notional value (US$ thousand)   Assets    Liabilities    Assets    Liabilities    Market Value 
     
      8/13/2009    8/13/2009    6/30/2009    6/30/2009    8/13/2009    6/30/2009 
                 
9/5/2008    8/13/2009    1,050,763    1,350,307    (1,934,741)   1,326,117    (2,060,055)   (584,434)   (733,938)

Despite this operation’s accumulated losses from September 5, 2008 up to the date of its settlement, in the amount of R$584,434, during that period in 2009 the operation generated a profit totaling R$1,026,465.

Swap contract without cash, had as counterpart Banco Goldman Sachs International, was pegged to 29,684,400 American Depositary Receipts (“ADR”) of Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (long position) and Libor of 3 months + spread of 0.75% p.a. (short position).

The gains and losses from this contract were directly related to foreign exchange fluctuations, the Company’s ADRs and Libor quotation. This instrument was recorded in other accounts payable in the balance sheet, and gains and loss, by accrual period, in the Company’s financial results.

This operation had deposit related to the guarantee margin with the counterpart in the amount of US$593,410 remunerated daily at the FedFund rate, and this deposit was released on the operation settlement date. The guarantee margin was recorded in the other accounts receivable in the Company’s current assets.

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18. SURETIES AND GUARANTEES

The Company has the following liabilities with its subsidiaries and jointly-owned subsidiaries, in the amount of R$5,057 million (R$4,079 million as of June 30, 2009), for guarantees provided:

    In million         
       
Companies    Currency    9/30/2009   6/30/2009    Maturity    Conditions 
           
Transnordestina    R$    24.0    24.0    11/13/2009    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$    20.0    20.0    11/15/2020    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$    13.0    13.0    11/15/2015    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$    23.0    23.0    4/1/2010    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$    19.2    19.2    4/23/2010    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$    18.0    18.0    9/13/2010    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$    20.0    20.0    2/11/2010    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$        5.0    5/26/2009    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$    90.0    90.0    11/2/2009    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$    6.5    6.5    1/11/2010    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$        2.7    9/14/2009    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$    45.0    45.0    5/21/2010    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$    2.0    2.0    5/21/2010    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$    45.0    45.0    5/8/2028    BNDES FNE loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$    13.7        9/5/2010    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$    2.2        9/5/2010    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$    2.2        9/5/2010    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$    2.2        9/5/2010    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$    76.1        8/30/2010    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$    3.5        8/30/2010    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$    3.5        8/30/2010    BNDES loan guarantee 
Transnordestina    R$    3.5        8/30/2010    BNDES loan guarantee 
CSN Cimentos S.A.    R$    27.0    27.0    Indefinite    To guarantee the Warrantee’s liability in the w rit of summons, pledge, appraisal and registration 
CSN Cimentos S.A.    R$    7.9    7.9    Indefinite    To guarantee the Warrantee’s liability regarding Tax Foreclosure 
Prada    R$    0.8    0.8    Indefinite    To guarantee the Warrantee’s liability regarding Tax Foreclosure 
Prada    R$    2.8    2.8    Indefinite    To guarantee the Warrantee’s liability regarding Tax Foreclosure 
Prada    R$    0.2    0.2    Indefinite    To guarantee the Warrantee’s liability regarding ICMS 
Prada    R$    6.1    6.1    Indefinite    To guarantee the Warrantee’s liability regarding Tax Foreclosure filed by Paraná State 
Prada    R$    0.1    0.1    Indefinite    To guarantee the payment of the value discussed in the Tax Foreclosure Proceeding 2004.51.01.54.1327-8 
Prada    R$    0.1    0.1    Indefinite    To guarantee the payment of the value discussed in the Tax Foreclosure Proceeding 2004.61.09.007744-7 
Prada    R$    0.1    0.1    Indefinite    To guarantee the payment of tax assessment notice 03.009135-9 (ICMS)
Prada    R$    0.4    0.4    1/3/2012    To guarantee the Warrantee's liability regarding the purchase and sale of electric pow er 
Prada    R$    1.2    1.2    3/10/2010    To guarantee the Private Instrument of Termination and acknow ledgment of indebtedness as of 9/9/2005 
Metalic    R$        0.9    Indefinite    To guarantee the Warrantee’s liability regarding the tax deficiency notices 2006.19291 and 2006.24557-7 to the Revenue Service of the Ceará State 
CSN Energia    R$    1.0    1.0    Indefinite    To guarantee the Warrantee’s liability regarding Tax Foreclosure 
Itá Energética S.A.    R$    49.6    51.8    9/15/2013    BNDES loan guarantee 
Sepetiba Tecon    R$    5.0    5.0    6/1/2010    To guarantee the Warrantee’s liability in the rendering of guarantee agreement no. 181020518 
Sepetiba Tecon    R$    1.9    2.1    1/15/2012    BNDES loan guarantee 
Sepetiba Tecon    R$    61.5    61.5    9/26/2011    Surety in Commercial Note 40/00048-6 
Sepetiba Tecon    R$    15.0    15.0    5/5/2011    Guarantee by CSN in the issue of export credit note 
 
Total in R$        613.2    517.4         
 
CSN Islands VIII    US$    550.0    550.0    12/16/2013    Guarantee in Bond issue 
CSN Islands IX    US$    400.0    400.0    1/15/2015    Guarantee in Bond issue 
CSN Islands X    US$    750.0    750.0    Perpetual    Guarantee in Bond issue 
Cinnabar    US$    20.0    20.0    10/29/2009    Guarantee in the Promissory Notes issue 
CSN Madeira    US$        76.8    8/21/2009    Guarantee in Import Loan 
Namisa    US$    20.0    20.0    12/31/2009    Guarantee in agreement for the rendering of external guarantee 
Aços Longos    US$    7.7    7.7    12/31/2011    Letter of Credit for equipment acquisition 
CSN Cimentos    US$    0.2    0.2    3/30/2010    Letter of Credit for equipment acquisition 
Aços Longos    US$    0.7        12/31/2011    Letter of Credit for equipment acquisition 
Aços Longos    US$    0.6        12/31/2011    Letter of Credit for equipment acquisition 
CSN Islands XI    US$    750.0        9/21/2019    Guarantee in Bond issue 
 
Total in US$        2,499.3    1,824.7         
 

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19. TAXES PAID IN INSTALLMENTS

The parent company and the jointly-owned subsidiary MRS Logística are regularly complying with the payment by installments and as of September 30, 2009, the position of these installments was the following:

    Consolidated    Parent Company 
   
    9/30/2009    6/30/2009    9/30/2009    6/30/2009 
       
Corporate Income tax (IRPJ)   250,421    266,171    250,421    266,171 
Social Contribution on Net Income (CSLL)   41,818    44,466    41,818    44,466 
Excise Tax (IPI)   196,957    209,356    196,957    209,356 
Social Integration Program (PIS)   38,711    41,162    38,711    41,162 
Contribution for Social Security Financing (COFINS)   209,106    222,345    209,106    222,345 
Value-added tax on sales and services (State of Minas Gerais) (ICMS)   198,703    183,175         
         
    935,716    966,675    737,013    783,500 
         
Current liabilities    283,674    262,335    245,364    240,829 
Noncurrent liabilities    652,042    704,340    491,649    542,671 

The parent company filed an action pleading the right to the presumed credit of Excise Tax (“IPI”) on the acquisition of exempt, immune inputs, not taxed or taxed at zero rate and, in May 2003, an injunction was obtained authorizing the use of the aforementioned credits, which it offset with other federal taxes. The Regional Federal Court of the 2nd Region, through the appeal filed by the Federal Government, revoked the aforementioned authorization and on August 27, 2007, the proceeding had an unfavorable decision. In view of this decision, the Company renegotiated the payment schedule of the debit related to the taxes offset to be paid in 60 months.

In 2008, jointly-owned subsidiary MRS Logística renegotiated the payment schedule of the ICMS debit with the State of Minas Gerais to be paid in 120 installments.

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20. PROVISIONS AND JUDICIAL DEPOSITS

The Company is currently party, at the competent situations, to several proceedings involving actions and complaints of a number of issues. The breakdown of the amounts recorded as provisions and the respective judicial deposits related to those actions are shown as follows:

    9/30/2009    6/30/2009 
     
    Judicial 
Deposits 
  Liabilities 
provisioned 
  Net Provisions    Judicial 
Deposits 
  Liabilities 
provisioned 
  Net Provisions 
             
Current liabilities                         
Provisions:                         
   Labor    (53,259)   122,535    69,276    (49,285)   127,923    78,638 
   Civil    (29,624)   38,211    8,587    (25,357)   62,467    37,110 
             
Parent Company    (82,883)   160,746    77,863    (74,642)   190,390    115,748 
             
Consolidated    (90,978)   175,192    84,214    (82,247)   203,931    121,684 
             
Noncurrent                         
Provisions:                         
   Labor                    26,678    26,678 
   Environmental    (209)   110,411    110,202    (208)   69,385    69,177 
   Tax        23,965    23,965        1,302    1,302 
             
    (209)   134,376    134,167    (208)   97,365    97,157 
Legal liabilities questioned in court:                         
   Tax                         
       IPI premium credit    (1,995,514)   2,247,060    251,546    (1,955,196)   2,221,432    266,236 
       CSLL credit on exports        1,222,970    1,222,970        1,204,097    1,204,097 
       SAT        74,800    74,800        78,225    78,225 
       Education Allowance    (33,121)   33,121        (33,121)   33,121     
       CIDE    (26,334)   26,854    520    (28,539)   29,112    573 
       Income tax / “Plano Verão”    (20,892)   20,892        (20,892)   20,892     
       Other provisions    (6,893)   115,229    108,336    (6,894)   113,465    106,571 
             
    (2,082,754)   3,740,926    1,658,172    (2,044,642)   3,700,344    1,655,702 
                         
Parent Company    (2,082,963)   3,875,302    1,792,339    (2,044,850)   3,797,709    1,752,859 
             
Consolidated    (2,121,793)   3,994,894    1,873,101    (2,057,424)   3,892,941    1,835,517 
             
Total Parent Company    (2,165,846)   4,036,048    1,870,202    (2,119,492)   3,988,099    1,868,607 
             
Total Consolidated    (2,212,771)   4,170,086    1,957,315    (2,139,671)   4,096,872    1,957,201 
             

The change in provisions for contingencies for the periods ended September 30, 2009 and June 30, 2009, are as follows:

Consolidated 
 
Nature    6/30/2009    Additions    Correction    Utilization    9/30/2009 
           
Civil    81,267    5,118    2,689    (31,051)   58,023 
Labor    190,863    2,643    3,456    (45,346)   151,616 
Tax    3,644,519    53,776    44,362    (49)   3,742,608 
Environmental    69,385    47,100        (6,072)   110,413 
Pension Plan    110,838    13    3,939    (7,364)   107,426 
           
Total    4,096,872    108,650    54,446    (89,882)   4,170,086 
           

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Parent Company 
 
Nature    6/30/2009    Additions    Correction    Utilization    9/30/2009 
           
Civil    62,467    4,680    2,115    (31,051)   38,211 
Labor    154,601    1,896    1,797    (35,759)   122,535 
Tax    3,623,422    22,648    44,020        3,690,090 
Environmental    69,385    47,100        (6,072)   110,413 
Pension Plan    78,224        3,939    (7,364)   74,799 
           
Total    3,988,099    76,324    51,871    (80,246)   4,036,048 
           

The provisions for civil, labor, tax, environmental and social security liabilities were estimated by the Company’s Management substantially based on the opinion of its legal counsel, and only the cases classified as risk of probable loss were recorded. Additionally, the provisions include tax liabilities arising from actions taken on the Company’s initiative, plus SELIC (Special Settlement and Custody System) interest.

The Company and its subsidiaries are defendants in other judicial and administrative proceedings (labor, civil and tax) in the approximate amount of R$5.8 billion, R$4.5 billion of which corresponds to tax proceedings, R$0.2 billion to civil actions and R$1.1 billion to labor and social security lawsuits. According to the Company’s legal counsel, these administrative and legal proceedings are assessed as possible risk of loss. These proceedings were not provided for in accordance with the Management’s judgment and with accounting practices adopted in Brazil.

a) Labor proceedings

As of September 30, 2009, the Company and its subsidiaries were defendant in 9,229 labor claims, with a provision in the amount of R$151,616 (R$190,864 as of June 30, 2009). Most of the pleadings of the actions are related to joint and/or subsidiary liability, wage parity, additional allowances for unhealthy and hazardous activities, overtime and differences related to the 40% fine on FGTS (severance pay) resulting from the federal government’s economic plans and profit sharing differences from 1997 to 1999 and from 2001 to 2003.

b) Civil proceedings

Among the civil judicial proceedings to which the Company and its subsidiaries are parties, there are mainly actions with indemnification request. Such proceedings, in general, arise from occupational accidents and diseases related to the Company’s industrial activities. A provision in the amount of R$58,023 as of September 30, 2009 (R$81,267 as of June 30, 2009) was recorded for proceedings involving civil matters.

c) Environmental proceedings

As of September 30, 2009, the Company and its subsidiaries have a provision in the amount of R$110,413 (R$69,385 of June 30, 2009) for use in expenses related to services for environmental investigation and recovery of areas potentially polluted within the Company’s plants in the States of Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Santa Catarina.

d) Tax proceedings

Income and Social Contribution Taxes

(i) The parent company claims the recognition of the financial-tax effects on the calculation of the income and social contribution taxes on net income, related to the 51.87% inflation write-down of the Consumer Price Index (IPC), which occurred in January and February 1989 (“Plano Verão”).

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In 2004, the proceeding was concluded and a final and unappealable decision was reached, granting to CSN the right to apply the index of 42.72% (January 1989), from which the 12.15% already applied should be deducted. The use of the index of 10.14% (February 1989) was also granted. The proceeding is currently under expert inspection.

CSN maintains a judicial deposit in the amount of R$339,033 as of September 30, 2009 (R$338,611 as of June 30, 2009) and a provision of R$20,892 (R$20,892 as of June 30, 2009), which represents the portion not recognized by the courts.

(ii) The parent company filed an action questioning the levying of Social Contribution on Net Income (CSLL) on export revenues, based on Constitutional Amendment 33/01 and in March 2004 the Company obtained an injunction authorizing the exclusion of these revenues from the aforementioned calculation basis, as well as the offsetting of the amounts paid as from 2001. The lower court decision was favorable and the decision made by a court of second instance, pronounced before the appeal filed by the Federal Government at the Regional Federal Court (TRF), judged this proceeding unfavorably for CSN. In view of these facts an Extraordinary Appeal was filed at the STF, which has not been judged yet. An injunction suspending the effects of the decision by the Regional Federal Court was obtained at the Federal Supreme Court (STF) until the judgment of the aforementioned Extraordinary Appeal, the discussion is restricted to the assessment of social contribution on net income (CSLL) on profit from exports. In December 2008, CSN received a Collection Letter for the amounts referring to the exclusion of revenues from the calculation basis; however, by the decision issued by a writ of mandamus, any collection related to the CSLL on exports could only become effective after the STF’s final decision. Up to September 30, 2009, the amount of suspended liability and the credits offset based on the aforementioned proceeding was R$1,222,970 (R$1,204,097 as of June 30, 2009), plus SELIC interest rate.

Contribution for intervention in the Economic Domain - CIDE

The parent company questions the legality of Law 10168/00, which established the payment of CIDE on the amounts paid, credited or remitted to beneficiaries not resident in Brazil, for royalties or remuneration purposes on supply contracts, technical assistance, trademark license agreement and exploitation of patents.

The parent company maintains judicial deposits and a provision in the amount of R$26,854 as of September 30, 2009 (R$29,112 as of June 30, 2009), which includes legal charges.

The lower court decision was unfavorable, which was ratified by the 2nd Regional Federal Court (TRF). Appeals for Clarification of Judgment were filed, which were rejected, and an Extraordinary Appeal was filed at STF, which is awaiting decision as to its admissibility.

Education Allowance

The parent company challenged the unconstitutionality of the education allowance and the possible recovery of the amounts paid in the period from January 5, 1989 to October 16, 1996. The proceeding was judged unfounded, and the Federal Regional Court maintained its unfavorable decision, which is final and unappealable.

In view of this fact, CSN attempted to pay the amount due, but FNDE and INSS did not reach an agreement about who should receive it. A fine was also demanded, but CSN did not agree on it.

CSN filed new proceedings questioning the above-mentioned facts and deposited in court the amounts due. In the first proceeding, the 1st level sentence judged partially favorable the CSN pleading, in which the Judge removed the amount of the fine, maintaining, however, the SELIC rate. The Company presented brief of respondent to the defendant’s appeal, and appealed concerning the SELIC rate.

The amount provided for and deposited in court as of September 30 and June 30, 2009 totals R$33,121.

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Workers’ Compensation Insurance (SAT)

The parent company is challenging in court the increase in the SAT rate from 1% to 3% and is also contests the raise in SAT for purposes of Contribution to Special Retirement, whose rate was set at 6%, in accordance with the legislation, for employees who are exposed to harmful agents.

As for the first proceeding mentioned above, the lower court decision was unfavorable and the proceeding is under judgment in the 2nd Region of the Federal Regional Court. As for the second proceeding it ended up unfavorably for the Company, and the total amount due in this proceeding of R$33,077, which was deposited in court, was converted into revenue for the benefit of INSS.

The amount provided for as of September 30, 2009, totals R$74,800 (R$78,225 as June 30, 2009), which includes legal additions and is exclusively related to the process of rate difference from 1% to 3% for all establishments of the Company.

IPI premium credit on exports

The Brazilian tax laws allowed companies to recognize IPI premium credit until 1983, when the Brazilian government, through Executive act, cancelled these benefits, prohibiting companies to use these credits.

The parent company challenged the constitutionality of this act and filed a claim to obtain the right to use the IPI premium credit on exports from 1992 to 2002, once only laws enacted by the legislative branch may cancel or revoke benefits prepared by prior legislation.

In August 2003 the Company obtained a favorable lower court decision, authorizing the use of the credits aforementioned. The national treasury appealed against this decision and obtained a favorable decision, and the Company then filed a special and extraordinary appeal against this decision at the Superior Court of Justice and at the Federal Supreme Court, respectively, and is currently awaiting for decisions of these courts.

Between September 2006 and May 2007, the Treasury filed 5 tax foreclosures and 3 administrative proceedings against the Company requesting the payment in the amount of approximately R$3.9 billion related to the payment of taxes which were offset with IPI premium credits.

On August 29, 2007, CSN offered property to be levied upon treasury shares in the amount of R$536 million. 25% of this amount will be replaced by judicial deposits in monthly installments performed up to December 31, 2007 and as these substitutions take place, it was requested that the equivalent amount in shares be released from the levy of execution for the share price determined at the closing price of the day prior to the deposit. The requirement is still pending decision.

In March 2009, Letters of Guarantee were also offered in the amount of R$830 million, which aimed to replace the levy of execution upon securities carried out as of the disclosure of dividend payment. The prevalence of guarantee in treasury shares, bank surety or cash to be deposited judicially has not yet been decided by the 2nd Region Regional Federal Court.

The Parent Company maintains provisioned the amount of credits already offset, plus default charges up to September 30, 2009, which total R$2,247,060 (R$2,221,432 as of June 30, 2009) and as of September 30, 2009, CSN has judicial deposits for referred liabilities, in the amount of R$1,995,514 (R$1,955,196 as of June 30, 2009).

On August 13, 2009, the Federal Supreme Court issued a decision of the Extraordinary Appeal with effects of general repercussion establishing that the IPI Premium Credit was only effective up to October 1990. Thus, the credits determined after 1990 were not recognized, and, in view of this court decision, the Company is considering, among other measures, adhering to the payment of tax debits in installments pursuant to the Provisional Decree 470, still pending regulation, or the one provided for in Law 11,941/09 (new Tax Recovery Program - REFIS), in which there is the advantage of reduced fines, interest and legal charges.

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Taking in consideration the amounts provisioned and the possibility of adhering to the payment of tax debits in installments under the abovementioned, terms we understand that the current accrued amounts are still our best loss estimate.

Other

The parent company also recorded provisions for proceedings related to Severance Pay (FGTS) - Supplementary Law 110, COFINS Law 10,833/03, PIS - Law 10,637/02 and PIS/COFINS - Manaus Free-Trade Zone, amount of which totaled R$139,194 as of September 30, 2009 (R$114,767 as of June 30, 2009), which includes legal accruals.

21. SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

i.Paid-in capital stock

The Company’s fully subscribed and paid-in capital stock as of September 30, 2009 amounted to R$1,680,947 (R$1,680,947 as of June 30, 2009), split into 755,179,610 common book-entry shares, with no par value. Each share is entitled to one vote in the resolutions of the General Meeting.

ii.Authorized capital stock

The Company’s bylaws in force as of September 30, 2009, determine that the capital stock can be increased up to 1,200,000,000 shares, by decision of the Board of Directors.

iii.Legal reserve

Recorded at the proportion of 5% on the net income determined in each period, pursuant to Article 193 of Law 6,404/76. The Company reached the limit for recording the legal reserve, as determined by the current legislation.

iv.Treasury shares

The Board of Directors authorized several share repurchase programs, with the purpose of holding those shares in treasury for subsequent disposal and/or cancellation, which are shown as follows:

Board 
authorization 
  Number of 
 shares 
authorized 
  Program term    Number of 
shares 
acquired 
   Shares 
cancellation 
  Average 
weighted 
acquisition cost 
  Maximum and minimum 
acquisition cost 
  Balance in 
treasury 
               
12/21/2007    4,000,000    From 1/23/2008 to 2/27/2008 (1)           Not applicable    Not applicable    34,734,384 
3/20/2008    10.800.000(2)   Up to 4/28/2008            Not applicable    Not applicable    34,734,384 
5/6/2008    10,800,000    Up to 5/28/2008            Not applicable    Not applicable    34,734,384 
6/2/2008    10,800,000    Up to 6/26/2008            Not applicable    Not applicable    34,734,384 
6/27/2008    10,800,000    From 6/30/2008 to 7/29/2008            Not applicable    Not applicable    34,734,384 
8/1/2008    10,800,000    From 8/4/2008 to 8/27/2008            Not applicable    Not applicable    34,734,384 
9/26/2008    10,800,000    From 9/29/2008 to 10/29/2008    10,800,000(3)       29.40    24.99 and 41.85    45,534,384 
12/3/2008                10,800,000(4)   Not applicable    Not applicable    34,734,384 
12/3/2008    9,720,000    From 12/4/2008 to 1/4/2009            Not applicable    Not applicable    34,734,384 
1/7/2009    9,720,000    From 1/8/2009 to 1/28/2009            Not applicable    Not applicable    34,734,384 
2/2/2009    9,720,000    From 2/3/2009 to 2/25/2009            Not applicable    Not applicable    34,734,384 
7/20/2009    29,684,400    up to settlement of Equity Swap(5)   29,684,400(5)       45.49    45.49    64,418,784 
8/21/2009                8,539,828(6)   Not applicable    Not applicable    55,878,956 
9/14/2009                29,684,400(7)   Not applicable    Not applicable    26,194,556 

(1) The start of this program only occurred after the cancellation of shares approved at the Extraordinary General Meeting (AGE) held on January 22, 2008.
(2) As from this share repurchase program the number of shares informed already reflects the split and cancellation of shares approved at the AGE held on January 22, 2008.

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(3) All shares acquired in this program were repurchased as from October 2008.
(4) The Extraordinary General Meeting held on December 3, 2008 approved the cancelation of 10,800,000 treasury shares, without reducing the Company’s capital stock.
(5) The Board of Directors approved the acquisition by the Company, through a private operation, of 29,684,400 ADRs previously held by Goldman Sachs due to an operation called “Total Return Equity Swap Transaction”, for the settlement price that was defined based on the weighted average of the price of the Company’s shares in the 30 floors sessions prior to the settlement date, translated into U.S. dollars by using the spot dollar translation rate of the business day immediately prior to the settlement date, as per the CVM Board’s decision – Proceeding RJ2009/5962. On August 13, the operation was settled and the ADRs were repurchased, converted into common shares and subsequently cancelled.
(6) The Extraordinary General Meeting held on August 21, 2009 approved the cancelation of 8,539,828 treasury shares, without reducing the capital stock.
(7) The Extraordinary General Meeting held on September 14, 2009 approved the cancelation of 29,684,400 treasury shares for the historical cost of acquisitions at the unit price of R$25.28, without reducing the capital stock.

As of September 30, 2009, the position of treasury shares was as follows:

Number of    Total amount                Share 
shares acquired    paid for the        Share unit cost        market value 
       
(in units)   shares    Minimum         Maximum    Average    at 9/30/2009 (*)
           
26,194,556    R$ 1,191,559    R$ 45.49    R$ 45.49    R$ 45.49    R$ 1,424,460 

(*) Average quotation of shares on BOVESPA as of September 30, 2009 at the value of R$54.38 per share.

v. Shareholding structure

As of September 30, 2009, the Company’s shareholding structure was as follows:

    9/30/2009 
   
    Number of    Total % of    % excluding 
    Common Shares    shares    treasury shares 
       
Vicunha Siderurgia S.A.    348,859,995    46.20%    47.86% 
Caixa Beneficente dos Empregados da CSN - CBS    35,490,867    4.70%    4.87% 
BNDESPAR    28,886,758    3.83%    3.96% 
Sundry (ADR - NYSE)   161,766,145    21.42%    22.19% 
Other shareholders (approximately 10 thousand)   153,981,289    20.39%    21.12% 
       
    728,985,054    96.53%    100.00% 
Treasury shares    26,194,556    3.47%     
       
Total shares    755,179,610    100.00%     

vi. Investment policy and payment of interest on shareholders’ equity and dividends distribution

As of December 11, 2000, the CSN Board of Directors decided to adopt a profit distribution policy which will result in the full distribution of net income to its shareholders, in compliance with Law 6,404/76 amended by Law 9,457/97, provided that the following priorities are preserved, irrespective of their order: (i) business strategy; (ii) compliance with liabilities; (iii) execution of the necessary investments; and (iv) maintenance of the Company’s good financial standing.

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22. INTEREST ON SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY AND DIVIDENDS

Interest on shareholders’ equity

The calculation of interest on shareholders’ equity is based on the variation of the Long-Term Interest Rate (TJLP) on shareholders’ equity, limited to 50% of the income for the period before income tax or 50% of retained earnings and profit reserves, in which case the higher of the two limits may be used, pursuant to the legislation in force.

In compliance with the CVM Resolution 207, of December 31, 1996, and with tax rules, the Company opted to record the proposed interest on shareholders’ equity in the amount of R$273,563 up to September 30, 2009, corresponding to the remuneration of R$0.3752664 per share, as corresponding entry against the financial expenses account, and reverse it in the same account, and not presenting it in the statement of income and not generating effects on net income, except with respect to tax effects recognized in income and social contribution taxes. Management will propose that the amount of interest on shareholders’ equity be attributed to the mandatory minimum dividend.

23. NET REVENUES AND COST OF GOODS SOLD

                        Consolidated 
   
            9/30/2009            9/30/2008 
     
    Tonnes (thousand)
(unrevised)
  Net revenue    Cost of Goods
Sold 
  Tonnes (thousand)
(unrevised)
  Net revenue    Cost of
Goods Sold 
             
             
Steel products                         
Domestic market    2,239    4,731,398    (2,893,837)   3,329    7,052,850    (3,372,889)
Foreign market    671    851,021    (818,239)   656    1,191,980    (940,472)
             
    2,910    5,582,419    (3,712,076)   3,985    8,244,830    (4,313,361)
             
Mining products                         
Domestic market    3,116    91,878    (8,263)   3,627    223,646    (95,724)
Foreign market    12,701    1,357,921    (577,855)   10,428    1,105,777    (403,214)
             
    15,817    1,449,799    (586,118)   14,055    1,329,423    (498,938)
             
Other sales                         
Domestic market        867,669    (777,941)       975,991    (716,207)
Foreign market        21,568    (30,913)       63,596    (38,639)
             
        889,237    (808,854)       1,039,587    (754,846)
             
        7,921,455    (5,107,048)       10,613,840    (5,567,145)
             
 

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                    Parent Company 
   
            9/30/2009            9/30/2008 
     
    Tonnes (thousand)
(unrevised)
  Net revenue    Cost of Goods
Sold 
  Tonnes (thousand)
(unrevised)
  Net revenue    Cost of
Goods Sold 
             
             
Steel products                         
Domestic market    2,262    4,427,492    (2,935,065)   3,371    6,732,834    (3,456,471)
Foreign market    625    686,091    (616,830)   312    469,242    (363,029)
             
    2,887    5,113,583    (3,551,895)   3,683    7,202,076    (3,819,500)
             
Mining products                         
Domestic market    6,270    126,107    (42,667)   5,105    227,255    (70,481)
Foreign market    5,924    569,119    (255,335)   3,858    216,232    (160,819)
             
    12,194    695,226    (298,002)   8,963    443,487    (231,300)
             
Other sales                         
Domestic market        392,515    (322,445)       222,100    (140,711)
Foreign market        7,807    (12,461)       14,188    (10,931)
             
        400,322    (334,906)       236,288    (151,642)
             
        6,209,131    (4,184,803)       7,881,851    (4,202,442)
             

 

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24. FINANCIAL INCOME AND MONETARY AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE VARIATIONS, NET 

    Consolidated    Parent Company 
     
    9/30/2009    9/30/2008    9/30/2009    9/30/2008 
         
Financial expenses:                 
Loans and financing - foreign currency    (399,966)   (353,793)   (323,353)   (283,893)
Loans and financing - domestic currency    (143,114)   (146,544)   (129,370)   (127,018)
Related parties    (269,275)       (908,717)   (40,856)
PIS/COFINS on other revenues    (867)   (1,838)   (867)   (1,838)
Interest, fines and tax delays    (256,532)   (333,821)   (226,444)   (255,760)
Losses from derivative instruments (*)   (747,499)   (386,180)   (13,334)   (70,750)
Other financial expenses    (184,641)   (54,077)   (167,863)   (41,876)
         
    (2,001,894)   (1,276,253)   (1,769,948)   (821,991)
         
Financial income:                 
Related parties    50,614    4,868    (348,686)   219,492 
Income on financial investments    169,020    86,372    10,249    3,856 
Derivatives gains (*)   743,679    178,451         
Other income    204,296    130,317    174,501    114,413 
         
    1,167,609    400,008    (163,936)   337,761 
         
Net financial result    (834,285)   (876,245)   (1,933,884)   (484,230)
         
 
Monetary variations:                 
- Gains    876    5,256    756    3,318 
- Losses    64,183    (67,531)   3,439    (45,331)
         
    65,059    (62,275)   4,195    (42,013)
         
Exchange variations:                 
- Gains    (141,385)   518,013    (192,513)   94,816 
- Losses    677,628    (850,480)   2,059,016    (892,175)
- Exchange variations with derivatives (*)   282,786    (114,841)        
         
    819,029    (447,308)   1,866,503    (797,359)
         
Net monetary and exchange variations    884,088    (509,583)   1,870,698    (839,372)
         
 
(*) Statement of income from derivative operations     
 
Swap CDI x USD    (471,128)   115,137        (63,315)
Swap Libor x CDI    (13,334)   (7,435)   (13,334)   (7,435)
U.S. Dollar Futures    (201,981)            
Total return equity swap    1,026,465    (430,272)        
Other (MRS)   (61,056)            
         
    278,966    (322,570)   (13,334)   (70,750)
         


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25. OTHER OPERATING (EXPENSES) AND INCOME

    Consolidated    Parent Company 
     
    9/30/2009    9/30/2008    9/30/2009    9/30/2008 
         
Other operating expenses    (473,588)   (284,253)   (388,389)   (205,986)
   Provision for actuarial liabilities    (17,295)   68,138    (9,771)   68,138 
   Provision for contingencies    (154,467)   (74,305)   (134,212)   (60,611)
   Contractual fines    (21,870)   (73,668)   (33,135)   (33,895)
   Taxes and fees    (53,019)   (3,611)   (49,265)   (626)
   Equipment Stoppage    (27,808)   (32,164)   (25,192)   (32,024)
   Impairmaint ERSA    (23,137)       (23,137)    
   Equity loss    (62,632)   (60,275)   (59,126)   (60,275)
   Other expenses    (113,360)   (108,368)   (54,551)   (86,693)
Other operating income    1,006,944    113,844    945,712    60,674 
   Investment gains (*)   835,115        835,115     
   Indemnifications    5,557    (11,043)   5,143    3,849 
   Reversal of provision for contingencies    71,648        71,648     
   Other income    94,624    124,887    33,806    56,825 
         
Other operating income and (expenses)   533,356    (170,409)   557,323    (145,312)
         

(*) On July 30, 2009, Nacional Minérios SA – NAMISA merged the parent company Big Jump Energy Participações S.A. and, as a consequence of this merger that took place without changing the percentage interest, the Company recorded an R$835,115 gain.

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26. INFORMATION BY BUSINESS SEGMENT

(i) Consolidated balance sheet by business segment

                9/30/2009 
   
            Logistics, Energy     
    Steel    Mining    and Cement    Total 
         
Current assets    12,100,580    1,791,107    888,002    14,779,689 
   Financial investments    6,374,252    836,158    309,433    7,519,843 
   Clients    605,138    310,740    208,237    1,124,115 
   Advance to suppliers    195,089    2,331    29,646    227,066 
   Taxes recoverable    1,274,038    219,224    157,038    1,650,300 
   Net contingencies – judicial deposits    79,591    38    4,585    84,214 
   Inventories    2,017,663    415,096    66,684    2,499,443 
   Other    1,554,809    7,520    112,379    1,674,708 
Noncurrent assets    7,721,012    3,212,895    3,996,204    14,930,111 
   Long-term assets    2,521,078    815,400    363,977    3,700,455 
   Investments, property, plant and equipment and intangible assets    5,199,934    2,397,495    3,632,227    11,229,656 
         
Total Assets    19,821,592    5,004,002    4,884,206    29,709,800 
         
Current liabilities    4,595,543    78,783    507,744    5,182,070 
   Loans, financing and debentures    2,201,940        168,147    2,370,087 
   Suppliers    488,551    39,419    53,829    581,799 
   Tax payable    947,850    13,268    168,394    1,129,512 
   Accounts payable    439,196    12,577    23,528    475,301 
   Provisions and contigencies    263,857    4,948    22,156    290,961 
   Other    254,149    8,571    71,690    334,410 
Noncurrent liabilities    16,983,981    27,561    1,161,402    18,172,944 
   Loans, financing and debentures    11,494,152        903,656    12,397,808 
   Net contingencies – judicial deposits    1,813,325    3,065    56,711    1,873,101 
   Obligations and taxes paid by installments    659,612    22,004    160,393    842,009 
   Accounts payable long-term    19,512    (118)   25,716    45,110 
   Other    2,997,380    2,610    14,926    3,014,916 
Shareholders' equity    2,403,251    2,643,877    1,307,658    6,354,786 
         
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity    23,982,775    2,750,221    2,976,804    29,709,800 
         

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(ii) Consolidated statement of gross income by business segment

    9/30/2009 
   
    Steel    Mining    Logistics, Energy 
and Cement 
  Consolidated 
         
Net revenues from sales    5,606,033    1,439,310    876,112    7,921,455 
Cost of goods sold and services rendered    (3,926,280)   (805,238)   (375,530)   (5,107,048)
         
Gross profit    1,679,753    634,072    500,582    2,814,407 
         

In view of the CPC Technical Pronouncement 22 approved by CVM Resolution 582 as of July 31, 2009 and, consequently, of the changes that will be introduced by this regulatory instrument, the Company chose to maintain the disclosure, and for this quarter only gross profit by segment will be presented.

(iii) Other consolidated information by business segment

    9/30/2009 
   
    Steel    Mining    Logistics, Energy 
and Cement 
  Consolidated 
         
Depreciation, Amortization and Depletion    375,426    56,501    148,699    580,626 
Provisions net of Judicial Deposits    1,892,933    3,094    61,288    1,957,315 
   Tax    1,545,807    1,919    7,123    1,554,849 
   Labor and social security    228,243    38    37,758    266,039 
   Civil    8,634        15,784    24,418 
   Other    110,249    1,137    623    112,009 

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27. STATEMENT OF VALUE ADDED

    Consolidated    Parent Company 
     
    9/30/2009    9/30/2008    9/30/2009    9/30/2008 
         
Revenues                 
 Sales of goods, products and services    10,633,144    13,329,545    8,270,532    10,271,841 
   Other revenues/expenses    794,322    (34,199)   797,827    (36,159)
   Allow ance for/reversal of doubtful accounts    (83,431)   (83,245)   (80,599)   (75,545)
         
    11,344,035    13,212,101    8,987,760    10,160,137 
         
Input acquired from third parties                 
 Costs of products, goods and services sold    (5,752,326)   (3,864,723)   (4,709,184)   (1,882,888)
 Materials, energy - Third party services - other    (882,446)   (398,228)   (545,482)   (1,198,941)
 Loss/recovery of asset amounts    (22,224)   (705,999)   (21,090)   (450,317)
         
    (6,656,996)   (4,968,950)   (5,275,756)   (3,532,146)
         
Gross value added    4,687,039    8,243,151    3,712,004    6,627,991 
         
Retention                 
 Depreciation, amortization and depletion    (580,158)   (876,344)   (428,093)   (774,911)
         
Net value added produced    4,106,881    7,366,807    3,283,911    5,853,080 
         
Value added received in transfers                 
 Equity pick-up        (173,622)   1,319,638    714,881 
 Financial income/assets exchange variation    76,422    526,448    (728,825)   393,811 
 Other    5,902        5,347     
         
    82,324    352,826    596,160    1,108,692 
         
Total value added to distribute    4,189,205    7,719,633    3,880,071    6,961,772 
         

DISTRIBUTION OF VALUE ADDED 
               
 Personnel    753,196    597,331    521,774    450,063 
       Direct compensation    584,280        396,058     
       Benefits    123,719        90,508     
       Government Severance Indemnity Fund for Employees (FGTS)   45,197        35,208     
 Taxes, fees and contributions    1,552,288    3,376,708    1,413,072    2,961,947 
       Federal    1,253,286        1,180,566     
       State    278,809        220,163     
       Municipal    20,193        12,343     
 Third party capital remuneration    30,491    1,907,705    (665,628)   1,713,117 
       Interest    24,916    1,907,705    (667,298)   1,713,117 
       Rentals    5,575        1,670     
 Remuneration of shareholders' equity    1,853,230    1,837,889    2,610,853    1,836,645 
       Interest on shareholders' equity    273,563    189,631    273,563    189,631 
       Dividends        160,000        160,000 
       Retained earnings    2,337,290    1,487,015    2,337,290    1,487,014 
       Elimination of earnings in inventories and other    (757,623)            
             Exchange variation adjustment CPC 02    (794,792)            
             Other adjustments 
  37,169    1,243         
         
    4,189,205    7,719,633    3,880,071    6,961,772 
         

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28. EMPLOYEES’ PENSION FUND

(i) Management of the Private Pension Plan

The Company is the main sponsor of CBS Previdência, a private not-for-profit pension fund established in July 1960, main purpose of which is to pay supplementary benefits to participants in the official Pension Plan. CBS Previdência is composed of employees of CSN, CSN-related companies and the entity itself, provided they sign the adherence agreement.

(ii) Description of characteristics of the plans

CBS Previdência has three benefit plans:

35%-of-average-salary plan

It is a defined benefit plan (BD), which began on February 1, 1966, for the purpose of paying retirements (due to time in service, special cases, disability or age) on a life-long basis, equivalent to 35% of the participant’s last average 12 salaries. The plan also guarantees the payment of a sickness allowance to a participant on sick leave through the Official Pension Plan and it also guarantees the payment of death grant and a cash grant. The active and retired participants and the sponsors make thirteen contributions per year, which is the same as the number of benefits paid. This plan became inactive on October 31, 1977, when the supplementation of the average salary plan, which is in process of extinction, came into force.

Supplementation plan for the average salary

The defined benefit plan (BD) began on November 1, 1977. The purpose of this plan is to supplement the difference between the 12 last average salaries and the benefit paid by the Social Security Pension Plan (Previdência Oficial) benefit, to the retired employees, on a life-long basis. Like in the 35% Average Salary Plan, there is sickness allowance, death grant and pension coverage. Thirteen contributions are paid per year, the same number of benefits paid. This plan became inactive on December 26, 1995, after the combined supplementary benefits plan has been implemented.

Combined supplementary benefit plan

Begun on December 27, 1995, this is a combined variable contribution plan (CV). Besides the programmed pension benefit, there is the payment of risk benefits (pension in activity, disability and sickness benefit). In this plan, the retirement benefit is calculated based on the total accumulated sponsor’s and participant’s contributions (thirteen per year). Upon the participant’s retirement grant, the plan starts having a defined benefit plan and thirteen benefits are paid per year.

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As of September 30 and June 30, 2009, the plans are composed as follows:

    35%-of-Average-Salary Plan    Supplementation Plan
for
 the Average Salary 
  Combined Supplementary
 Benefit Plan 
  Total members 
         
    9/30/2009    6/30/2009    9/30/2009    6/30/2009    9/30/2009    6/30/2009    9/30/2009    6/30/2009 
                 
Members                                 
     In service      10    21    22    12,217    11,631    12,247    11,663 
     Retired    4,722    4,789    4,711    4,732    744    711    10,177    10,232 
                 
    4,731    4,799    4,732    4,754    12,961    12,342    22,424    21,895 
                 
Related beneficiaries:                                 
                 
     Beneficiaries    3,908    3,942    1,418    1,404    89    86    5,415    5,432 
                 
Total participants                                 
                 
(members/ beneficiaries)   8,639    8,741    6,150    6,158    13,050    12,428    27,839    27,327 
                 

(iii) Solution approaches for the payment of the actuarial deficit

According to Official Letter 1555/SPC/GAB/COA of August 22, 2002, confirmed by Official Letter 1598/SPC/GAB/COA of August 28, 2002, a proposal for refinancing the reserves to amortize the sponsors’ liability in 240 consecutive monthly installments, monetarily indexed by INPC + 6% p.a., starting as from June 28, 2002 was approved.

The agreement establishes the prepayment of installments should there be a need for cash in the defined benefit plan and the incorporation to the updated debit balance of the eventual deficits/surpluses under the sponsors’ responsibility, so as to preserve the equilibrium of the plans without exceeding the maximum period of amortization stipulated in the agreement.

(iv) Actuarial Liabilities

Due to the CVM Resolution 371/00, which approved the NPC 26 of IBRACON – “Accounting of the Employee’s benefits” and which established new accounting practices for the calculation and disclosure, the Management, through a study performed by external actuaries, determined the effects arising from this practice, and the Company has kept records in conformity with the actuarial report issued on January 9, 2009.

    Plans status on 12/31/2008 
   
    Plans 
   
    35%-of- Average- Salary    Supplementation Plan
 for the Average
Salary 
  Combined
 Supplementary
Benefit Plan 
  Total 
         
Present value of the actuarial liabilities w ith guarantee    248,736    988,578    866,700    2,104,014 
Plan's assets fair value    (191,517)   (866,909)   (851,450)   (1,909,876)
         
Present value of the actuarial obligations exceeding the assets fair value    57,219    121,669    15,250    194,138 
Adjustments by allowed deferral:     (25,603)   (11,309)   (75,350)   (112,262)
   - Unrecognized actuarial gains     (25,603)   (11,309)   (94,341)   (131,253)
   - Unrecognized cost of service rendered            18,991    18,991 
Present value of the amortizing contributions of members    (5,420)   (18,988)       (24,408)
         
Actuarial liabilities/ (assets)   26,196    91,372    (60,100)   57,468 
         
Provisioned actuarial liabilities/ (assets) (long-term/Other)   26,196    91,372        117,568 
         

Actuarial liability recognition

Management decided to recognize the adjustments of the actuarial liabilities in income, as established in Paragraphs 83 and 84 of NPC 26. As of September 30, 2009, the balance of the provision for the coverage of the actuarial liability amounts to R$85,355 (R$96,285 as of June 30, 2009).

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As far as the recognition of the actuarial liability is concerned, the amortizing contribution related to the portion of the participants in the settlement of the reserve insufficiency was deducted from the present value of total actuarial liabilities of the respective plans. Some participants are questioning this amortizing contribution in court, but the Company, grounded on the opinion of its legal and actuarial advisers, understands that this amortizing contribution was duly approved by the Brazilian Department of Supplementary Private Pensions – SPC and, therefore, is legally due by the participants.

In accordance with the actuarial calculations prepared using the projected credit unit method, the amounts to be appropriated in 2009 are as follows:

    ESTIMATES PER PLAN - 2009 
   
    35%-of-    Supplementation Plan    Combined     
    Average-    for the Average    Supplementary    Total 
    Salary    Salary    Benefit Plan     
         
Cost of current service    (42)   (207)   (3,682)   (3,931)
Expected contribution of members    28    100        128 
Interest on actuarial liabilities    (30,057)   (119,630)   (18,535)   (168,222)
Expected income from assets    23,860    109,176    17,182    150,218 
Cost of amortizations    (530)       (3,538)   (4,068)
   - Unrecognized actuarial gains    (530)       (4,629)   (5,159)
   - Unrecognized cost of service rendered            1,091    1,091 
         
Expected impact on the 2009 result    (6,741)   (10,561)   (8,573)   (25,875)
         

Main actuarial assumptions adopted in the calculation of the actuarial liability as of December 31, 2008

Actuarial financing method    Projected Credit Unit 
Functional Currency    Real (R$)
     
Accounting for the plan assets    Market Value 
     
    Best estimate for shareholders’ equity on the closing date of the 
Amount used as estimate for the closing    fiscal year obtained based on the projection of the amounts 
shareholders’ equity for the period    recorded in November 
     
    35% of the average: 12.93%; Supplementation: 12.93%; 
Nominal annual rate of return on investments    Millennium: 13.21% 
     
Nominal annual rate for discount of the    35% of the average: 13.07%; Supplementation: 12.96%; 
actuarial liability    Millennium: 12.76% 
     
Nominal annual rate of salary growth    5.55% 
     
Nominal annual index for social security    4.50% 
benefits correction     
     
Long-term annual inflation rate    4.50% 
     
Administrative expenses    The amounts used are net of administrative expenses 

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General mortality table    AT83 segregated by gender 
     
Disability table    Mercer Disability with probabilities multiplied by 2 
     
Disabled mortality table    Winklevoss 
     
Turnover table    Millennium Plan 2% per annum, null for BD plans 
     
Retirement age    100% on the first date on which the employee becomes eligible to 
    a retirement benefit scheduled by the plan 
     
Family composition of the participants in    95% will be married at the time of retirement, and the wife is 4 
activity    years younger than the husband 
 
CSN does not have other post-employment benefit plans. 

29. INSURANCE

In view of the nature of its operations, the Company renewed, for the period from February 21, 2008 to February 21, 2009, and with international reinsurance companies, the All Risks coverage for operational risks for the Presidente Vargas Steelworks, Casa de Pedra Mine, Arcos Mine, Paraná Branch, Coal Terminal - Tecar, GalvaSud (property damages and loss of profits), Container Terminal -Tecon and ERSA Estanho de Rondônia (loss of profits), in the total risk amount of US$9.57 billion (property damages and loss of profit) and maximum indemnification amount, in the event of a claim, of US$750 million (property damages and loss of profits), equivalent to R$1.3 billion. The Company is negotiating coverage for operational risks with insurance and reinsurance companies in Brazil and abroad.

The risk assumptions adopted, given their nature, are not part of the scope of a quarterly information review, and, consequently, they were not reviewed by our independent auditors.

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07.01 – COMMENTS ON THE COMPANY’S PERFORMANCE IN THE QUARTER 
 

See item 12:

For further information see the Comments on the Company’s consolidated performance in the quarter.

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Production 

The Presidente Vargas Steelworks produced 1,177,000 tonnes of crude steel in the 3Q09, 35% up on the previous quarter due to the operational restart of Blast Furnace 2 (BF 2) in the second half of June/09, re-establishing CSN’s full production capacity.

Rolled output totaled 1,323,000 tonnes, 37% up on the 2Q09 and 13% more than the pre-crisis 3Q08.

It is worth noting that inventories of semi-finished products fell throughout the third quarter due to increased sales in both the domestic and international markets.

Year-to-date crude steel production totaled 3,133,000 tonnes, 19% down on the 3,850,000 produced in the same period last year, due to the repairs to BF 2 in the 2Q09 and the economic slowdown that began at the end of 2008.

Also in the first nine months, rolled output came to 2,917,000 tonnes, 18% less than the 3,543,000 recorded in the 9M08.

Production (in thousand t)   3Q08    2Q09    3Q09    Change % 
        3Q09 x 3Q08    3Q09 x 2Q09 
Crude Steel (P Vargas Mill)   1,317    869    1,177    -11%    35% 
Purchased Slabs from Third Parties    19         
Total Crude Steel    1,336    869    1,177    -12%    35% 
 
Rolled Products * (UPV)   1,146    968    1,323    15%    37% 
HR from Third Parties Consumption    20         
Rolled Products * (UPV)    1,166    968    1,323    13%    37% 
   * Products delivered for sale, including shipments to CSN Paraná and GalvaSud. 

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Production Costs (Parent Company)

CSN’s total steel production costs came to R$1,037 million in the 3Q09, 11% or R$104 million up on the previous quarter, essentially due to the substantial period increase in crude and rolled steel output, which resulted in higher consumption of raw materials and other inputs. The main variations between the two quarters are shown below:

Raw materials – total cost of R$432 million in the 3Q09, R$36 million more than the 2Q09:

– Coal: decline of R$6 million – given that prices remained stable in dollars, the reduction was chiefly due to the appreciation of the Real, despite the increase in consumption triggered by higher crude steel production in the 3Q09;
Coke: slight upturn of R$5 million due to increased consumption in the 3Q09;
Iron ore: growth of R$14 million, primarily due to higher crude steel production;
Pellets: increase of R$10 million, essentially due to higher consumption;
Other raw materials: upturn of R$13 million, also thanks to increased consumption in the 3Q09.

Labor – labor costs totaled R$123 million in the 3Q09, R$14 million higher than the 2Q09 figure, due to the pay rise in September/09 as a result of the collective bargaining agreement;

General costs – general production costs amounted to R$380 million in the 3Q09, R$55 million more than in the 2Q09, chiefly due to improved steel output, broken down as follows:

Gas, electricity and fuels: increase of R$14 million;
Maintenance: growth of R$19 million;
Third-party services: upturn of R$13 million;
Other general costs: increase of R$9 million.

Depreciation - remained virtually flat over the 2Q09 at around R$102 million.

The unit production cost of rolled steel averaged R$784/t in the 3Q09, a significant reduction of 19% over the previous quarter’s average of R$964/t.

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Sales

Total Sales Volume

CSN’s flat steel sales volume totaled 1,320,000 tonnes in the 3Q09, 39% up on the previous three months.

Year-to-date sales volume came to 2.9 million tonnes, 27% down on the first nine months of 2008.

Domestic Market

In 3Q09, flat steel domestic sales amounted to 884,000 tonnes, 11% up on the 2Q09, reflecting higher demand for steel products, especially from the construction, home appliance/OEM and automotive industries.

In 2009 through September, however, sales fell 33% year-on-year to 2.2 million tonnes, due to reduced demand.

Exports

Steel product exports totaled 436,000 tonnes in the third quarter, 186% up on the 2Q09, thanks to increased international demand in the 3Q09 and the exceptionally weak export performance in the first half of 2009.

Year-to-date export volume came to 671,000 tonnes, a 2% year-on-year improvement.

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Market Share

The Company’s share of the overall domestic flat steel market (hot-rolled, cold-rolled, galvanized and tin plate) stood at 40% in the 3Q09, identical to the previous quarter. In individual product terms, its share of the tin plate, galvanized, hot-rolled and cold-rolled segments came to 97%, 49%, 35% and 30%, respectively.

The charts below show CSN’s market share of the automotive and home appliance/OEM segments:

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Prices

Thanks to discounts conceded and the change in the product mix, net revenue per tonne averaged R$ 1,968 on the domestic market in the 3Q09, 5% down on the 2Q09.

3Q09 average net export revenue per tonne fell by 24% over the 2Q09, chiefly due to the higher share of non-coated steel in the product mix and the appreciation of the Real against the dollar.

Mining

PRODUCTION

Own iron ore production plus purchases from third parties totaled 7.5 million tonnes in the 3Q09, of which: (i) 5.3 million from Casa de Pedra; (ii) 0.8 million from Namisa; and (iii) 1.4 million from third parties. Of own production of 6.1 million tonnes, 3.3 million referred to finished products* and 2.8 million was run-of-mine.

In the first nine months, own production and acquisitions from third parties came to 21.1 million tonnes, of which: (i) 16.0 million from Casa de Pedra; (ii) 2.4 million from Namisa; and (iii) 2.7 million from third parties. Finished products* and run-of-mine amounted to 13.4 million tonnes and 5.0 million tonnes, respectively, giving total own production of 18.4 million tonnes.

SALES

The tables below give a breakdown of CSN’s 2009 iron ore sales to date.

IRON ORE SALES VOLUME
CSN + NAMISA 100% – Thousand t

 
    3Q09    9M09 
 
DOMESTIC MARKET    1,494    2,751 
         
       Finished Products    306    748 
       Run-of-mine    1,187    2,003 
     
EXPORT MARKET    6,296    16,666 
         
       Finished Products    6,296    16,666 
 
TOTAL MARKET    7,790    19,416 
 

 
(-) MINORITY INTEREST    (1,865)   (4,051)
 
DOMESTIC MARKET    (19)   (87)
 
EXPORT MARKET    (1,846)   (3,965)
 

IRON ORE SALES VOLUME
CONSOLIDATED – Thousand t

 
    3Q09    9M09 
 
DOMESTIC MARKET    1,475    2,664 
         
       Finished Products    288    661 
       Run-of-mine    1,187    2,003 
 
EXPORT MARKET    4,450    12,701 
         
       Finished Products    4,450    12,701 
 
TOTAL MARKET    5,925    15,365 
         
       Finished Products    4,738    13,362 
       Run-of-mine    1,187    2,003 
 

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The Presidente Vargas Steelworks absorbed 1.7 million tonnes in the third quarter and 4.6 million tonnes in the first nine months.

INVENTORIES

Iron ore inventories closed the 3Q09 at around 10.1 million tonnes, 8.0 million of which finished products*.

* Finished products: lump, sinter feed, pellet feed, hematite and mixed hematite.

Net Revenue

Net revenue totaled R$3.0 billion in the 3Q09, 20% up on the R$2.5 billion recorded in the 2Q09, due to the upturn in steel product sales volume.

Year-to-date net revenue came to R$7.9 billion, 25% down on the first nine months of 2008, thanks to the global economic slowdown.



Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

SG&A expenses totaled R$373 million in the 3Q09, R$51 million higher than the 2Q09 figure, essentially due to higher freight, insurance and third-party service costs.

In the first nine months, these expenses came to R$970 million, 13% up year-on-year, chiefly due to greater sales efforts and higher provisions for doubtful accounts.

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Other Revenue and Expenses

In the 3Q09, CSN recorded a positive R$661 million in the “Other Revenue and Expenses” line, versus a negative R$103 million in the 2Q09, mainly due to the non-recurring positive impact of R$835 million from gains related to the reverse merger of Big Jump Energy Participações S.A. ("BIG JUMP") by Namisa. This adjustment was recognized as “Gains from Investments” in CSN’s “Other Revenue and Expenses” line.

It is worth remembering that, in December/08, CSN sold 2,271,825 Namisa voting shares to Big Jump, whose shareholders are Posco and Brazil Japan Iron Ore Corp (Itochu, JFE Steel, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Kobe Steel, Nisshin Steel and Nippon Steel). Subsequently, Big Jump subscribed to new shares, paying in a total of US$3.04 billion, equivalent to R$7.29 billion, R$6.71 billion of which was recognized as goodwill from the subscription of shares.

In addition, this reverse merger took place without any alteration in the percentage holdings of these shareholders.

EBITDA

Third-quarter EBITDA totaled R$992 million, a substantial 36% up on the 2Q09, primarily due to the increase in steel product sales volume and the decline in production costs.

The 3Q09 EBITDA margin stood at 33%, 4.0 p.p. up on the previous three months, underlining the consistent recovery since the 1Q09.

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Financial Result and Debt

The 3Q09 net financial result was negative by R$115 million, chiefly due to the following factors:
• Provisions for interest on loans and financing totaling R$265 million;
• Monetary restatement of tax provisions, amounting to R$60 million;
• Gains of R$110 million from monetary and exchange variations, including the results of derivative transactions;
• Returns on financial investments totaling R$66 million;
• Other financial revenues of R$34 million.

Consolidated net debt moved up by R$1.0 billion, from R$4.9 billion on June 30,2009, to R$5.9 billion on September 30, 2009, essentially due to the following factors:
• EBITDA of R$1.0 billion in the 3Q09;
• Investments of R$0.4 billion;
• Effect of R$0.2 billion related to cost of debt allocated to the result.
• Disbursement of R$0.8 billion to settle the equity swap and repurchase the corresponding ADRs;
• Financial settlement of the FX and interest swap, totaling R$0.3 billion.

The net debt/EBITDA ratio, based on EBITDA of R$3.9 billion in the last 12 months, came to 1.49x at the close of the third quarter, 0.52x up on the 0.97x recorded at the end of the 2Q09, thanks to the increase in net debt and the decline in 12-month EBITDA.

On August 13, the subsidiary CSN Madeira settled an equity swap transaction pegged to 29,684,400 CSN ADRs. The operation was settled at the average weighted price of CSN’s shares on the BM&Fbovespa in the 30 trading sessions immediately prior to the settlement date, as approved by the CVM.

Also with CVM approval, shortly after the settlement of the equity swap, CSN acquired, through a private transaction and for the same settlement price, the 29,684,400 ADRs detained by the counterparty, which were converted into CSN shares held in treasury and subsequently canceled.

In August 2009, CSN contracted a Special Corporate Credit transaction with the Caixa Econômica Federal through the issue of a bank credit guarantee of R$2 billion, to be amortized in 36 months;

At the end of the 3Q09, CSN contracted loans of R$ 1 billion from Banco do Brasil S.A. and R$ 300 million from Banco Nossa Caixa S.A. through the issue of Export Notes (export financing operations), both of which will be amortized in up to five years.

In September 2009, CSN, through its wholly-owned subsidiary CSN Islands XI Corporation, effected a US$750 million notes issue at 6.875% p.a. maturing in September 2019, pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S of the United States of America. The notes are guaranteed by CSN and the funds will be used to improve the Group’s debt profile and for other corporate purposes.

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Income Taxes 

Income tax and social contribution totaled R$193 million in the 3Q09, R$81 million less than in the 2Q09, chiefly due to the period reduction in taxable income.

Net Income 

CSN posted a 3Q09 net income of R$1.15 billion, R$815 million up on the 2Q09, largely due to the improved operating result and the impact on CSN’s results of the merger of Big Jump Energy Participações S.A. by NAMISA and its reflection in CSN’s results.

Capex 

CSN invested R$416 million in the 3Q09, R$295 million of which went to the parent company, mostly in the following projects:
• Expansion of the Casa de Pedra mine: R$114 million;
• Maintenance and repairs: R$95 million;
• Technological improvements: R$34 million;
• Expansion of the Port of Itaguaí: R$14 million;
• Works plan: R$11 million.

Investments in the subsidiaries accounted for the remaining R$121 million, mainly in:
• Transnordestina Logística: R$35 million;
• CSN Cimentos: R$29 million;
• MRS Logística: R$24 million;
• CSN Aços Longos: R$20 million;
• NAMISA: R$6 million.

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Working Capital 

Working capital closed September 2009 at R$2.4 billion, virtually identical to the end-of-June figure, with liabilities falling slightly more than assets. The R$525 million decline in liabilities was due to the substantial R$744 million decrease in the “Suppliers” line, thanks to the increase in cash payments for raw materials and the improved selling conditions, partially offset by the R$153 million upturn in “Taxes Payable”. Assets fell by R$499 million, primarily due to the R$531 million reduction in “Inventories”, reflecting the period increase in sales volume.

The average supplier payment period narrowed from 72 to 31 days, while the average receivables period remained flat at 30 days. The inventory turnover period averaged 132 days, 33 days down on the previous quarter, due to the reduction in semi-finished product inventories.

R$ MILLION 
WORKING CAPITAL    Jun/09    Sep/09    Change 
Assets    4,900    4,401    499 
 
Accounts Receivable    1,079    1,124    (45)
- Domestic Market    1,113    1,115    (2)
- Export Market    246    309    (63)
- Allowance for Debtful    (278)   (297)   19 
- Credits from clients    (3)   (3)  
Inventory    3,030    2,499    531 
Advances to Suppliers    377    227    150 
Advances to Taxes    414    551    (137)
 
Liabilities    2,498    1,973    525 
 
Suppliers    1,326    582    744 
Salaries and Social Contribution    130    157    (27)
Taxes Payable    976    1,129    (153)
Advances from Clients    66    105    (39)
 
Working Capital    2,402    2,428    (26)
 
 
TURN OVER RATIO             
Average Periods    Jun/09    Sep/09    Change 
Receivables    30    30    (0)
Supplier Payment    72    31    41 
Inventory Turnover    165    132    33 
 

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Capital Market 

Share Performance

In 2009 through September 30, CSN’s shares recorded the 10th highest appreciation among the 60 stocks making up the IBOVESPA index, moving up by more than 100%, well above the IBOVESPA’s 64% in the same period. In the 3Q09 alone, CSN’s shares appreciated by 20%.

On the NYSE, also in the first nine months, CSN’s ADRs increased by a substantial 155%, the 8th highest upturn among all the Latin American ADRs traded on the New York Exchange and substantially higher than the 11% recorded by the Dow Jones. In the third quarter, CSN’s ADRs moved up 37%, versus 15% for the Dow Jones.

CSN’s average daily traded volume increased from around R$108 million to R$111 million between the 2Q09 and 3Q09 on the BOVESPA and from US$74 million to US$80 million in the same period on the NYSE. At the end of September, the Company’s shares were among the ten most traded in the IBOVESPA and its ADRs were among the ten most-traded Latin American ADRs on the NYSE.

CSN closed the third quarter with a market cap of US$22.3 billion, the highest figure of any steel manufacturer in the Americas.

It is worth noting that, in the 3Q09, the Company canceled 8,539,828 shares held in treasury and 29,684,400 shares from the settlement of the equity swap transaction, as mentioned previously.

Capital Markets - CSNA3 / SID / IBOVESPA / DOW JONES
    1Q09    2Q09    3Q09 
N# of shares    793,403,838    793,403,838    755,179,610 
 
Market Capitalization             
 Closing price (R$/share)   34.40    43.62    54.38 
 Closing price (US$/share)   14.84    22.35    30.60 
 Market Capitalization (R$ million)   26,098    33,093    39,642 
 Market Capitalization (US$ million)   11,259    16,956    22,307 
 
Total return including dividends and interest on equity         
 CSNA3 (%)   26%    28%    25% 
 SID (%)   23%    52%    37% 
 Ibovespa    9%    26%    20% 
 Dow Jones    -13%    11%    15% 
 
Volume             
 Average daily (thousand shares)   2,983    2,520    2,286 
 Average daily (R$ Thousand)   103,340    107,974    110,760 
 Average daily (thousand ADRs)   4,609    3,544    3,110 
 Average daily (US$ Thousand)   69,180    74,196    79,996 
 
Source: Economática 

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13.01 - EQUITY IN SUBSIDIARIES AND/OR ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

1 - ITEM  2 - NAME OF SUBSIDIARY/AFFILIATED COMPANY  3 - CNPJ (Corporate Taxpayer’s ID) 4 - CLASSIFICATION  5 - PARTICIPATION IN CAPITAL 
OF INVESTEE - % 
6 – INVESTOR’S 
SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY - % 
7 - TYPE OF COMPANY  8 - NUMBER OF SHARES HELD IN CURRENT QUARTER 
(in thousands)
9 - NUMBER OF SHARES HELD IN PREVIOUS QUARTER
(in thousands)

01  CSN OVERSEAS  05.722.388/0001-58  PRIVATE SUBSIDIARY  100.00  16.05 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    7,173    7,173 
 
02  CSN STEEL  05.706.345/0001-89  PRIVATE SUBSIDIARY  100.00  22.61 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    480,727    480,727 
 
03  COMPANHIA METALURGICA PRADA  56.993.900/0001-31  PRIVATE SUBSIDIARY  100.00  8.77 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    3,155    3,155 
 
04  CSN ENERGY  06.202.987/0001-03  PRIVATE SUBSIDIARY  100.00  14.11 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    3,675    3,675 
 
05  ITAGUAÍ LOGÍSTICA  09.295.323/0001-24  PRIVATE SUBSIDIARY  99.99  0.02 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    1,000    1,000 
 
06  AÇOS LONGOS  05.023.529/0001-44  PRIVATE SUBSIDIARY  99.99  3.28 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    198,428    41,826 
 
07  CSN CIMENTOS  42.564.807/0001-05  PRIVATE SUBSIDIARY  99.99  4.93 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    722,041    722,041 

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13.01 - EQUITY IN SUBSIDIARIES AND/OR ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

08  CIA METALIC DO NORDESTE  01.183.070/0001-95  PRIVATE SUBSIDIARY  99.99  1.44 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    92,284    92,284 
 
09  INAL NORDESTE  00.904.638/0001-57  PRIVATE SUBSIDIARY  99.99  0.57 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    43,981    43,981 
 
10  CSN PANAMA  05.923.777/0001-41  PRIVATE SUBSIDIARY  100.00  10.81 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    4,240    4,240 
 
11  CSN ENERGIA  03.537.249/0001-29  PRIVATE SUBSIDIARY  99.99  0.98 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY     
 
12  MINERAÇÃO NACIONAL  09.295.323/0001-24  PRIVATE SUBSIDIARY  99.99  0.02 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    1,000    1,000 
 
13  CONGONHAS MINÉRIOS  08.902.291/0001-15  PRIVATE SUBSIDIARY  99.99  0.09 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    5,009    5,009 
 
14  GALVASUD  02.618.456/0001-45  PRIVATE SUBSIDIARY  99.99  11.71 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    11,609,510    11,609,510 

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13.01 - EQUITY IN SUBSIDIARIES AND/OR ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

15  NACIONAL MINÉRIOS  08.446.702/0001-05  PRIVATE SUBSIDIARY  59.99  156.65 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    284,993    284,993 
 
16  SEPETIBA TECON  02.394.276/0001-27  PRIVATE SUBSIDIARY  99.99  3.13 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    253,990    253,990 
 
17  TRANSNORDESTINA LOGÍSTICA S.A  02.281.836/0001-37  PUBLICLY-HELD SUBSIDIARY  81.60  6.40 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    486,528    486,516 
           
18  ITÁ ENERGÉTICA  01.355.994/0002-02  PUBLICLY-HELD SUBSIDIARY  48.75  10.04 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    253,607    253,607 
           
19  MRS LOGÍSTICA  01.417.222/0001-77  PUBLICLY-HELD SUBSIDIARY  27.27  30.62 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    92,718    92,718 
 
20  ESTANHO DE RONDÔNIA ERSA  00.684.808/0001-35  PRIVATE SUBSIDIARY  99.99  0.27 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    34,233    34,233 
 
21  CSN EXPORT  05.760.237/0001-94  PRIVATE SUBSIDIARY  100.00  3.34 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRY AND OTHER TYPES OF COMPANY    1,036    1,036 

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14.01 – CHARACTERISTICS OF PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ISSUANCE OF DEBENTURES

1 – ITEM  05 
2 –ORDER No. 
3 –REGISTRATION No. AT CVM  CVM/SRE/DEB/2006/01 1 
4 – REGISTRATION DATE AT CVM  4/28/2006 
5 – SERIES ISSUED  UNIT 
6 – TYPE OF ISSUANCE  SIMPLE 
7 – NATURE OF ISSUANCE  PUBLIC 
8 – DATE OF ISSUANCE  2/1/2006 
9 – EXPIRATION DATE  2/1/2012 
10 – TYPE OF DEBENTURE  WITHOUT PREFERENCE 
11 – CONDITION FOR CURRENT REMUNERATION   
12 – PREMIUM/DISCOUNT   
13 – NOMINAL VALUE (Reais) 10,000.00 
14 – AMOUNT ISSUED (Thousands of Reais) 600,000 
15 NUMBER OF SECURITIES ISSUED (UNIT) 60,000 
16 – OUTSTANDING SECURITIES (UNIT) 60,000 
17 – TREASURY SECURITIES (UNIT)
18 – SECURITIES REDEEMED (UNIT)
19 – CONVERTED SECURITIES (UNIT)
20 – SECURITIES TO BE DISTRIBUTED (UNIT)
21 – DATE OF THE LAST RENEGOTIATION   
22 – DATE OF NEXT EVENT  2/1/2010 

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19.01 – INVESTMENT PROJECTS

We highlight, among the Company’s main investments, the expansion in the production capacity of the Casa de Pedra mine, of Aços Longos and of Itaguaí Port as of September 30, 2009. The Company also maintains investment project balances in the amounts of R$716,189, R$36,444 and R$24,574, respectively.

For further information, see the comments on the consolidated quarterly performance.

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21.01 – SPECIAL REVIEW REPORT

Independent auditor’s review report
(a free translation from the original in Portuguese)

To the Board of Directors of
Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional
Rio de Janeiro - RJ

1. We have reviewed the accounting information contained in the Quarterly Financial Information of Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (the Company) and in the consolidated Quarterly Financial Information of the Company and its subsidiaries for the quarter ended September 30, 2009, comprising the balance sheet, the statements of income, of changes in shareholders’ equity, cash flows, added value, explanatory notes and the management report, which are the responsibility of its management.

2. Our review was conducted in accordance with the standards set by IBRACON - The Brazilian Institute of Independent Auditors, in conjunction with the Federal Accounting Council - CFC and consisted mainly of the following: (a) inquiry and discussion with management responsible for the accounting, financial and operational areas of the Company and its subsidiaries, regarding the main criteria adopted in the preparation of the Quarterly Financial Information; and (b) reviewing information and subsequent events that have or may have relevant effects on the financial position and operations of the Company and its subsidiaries.

3. Based on our review, we are not aware of any material modifications that should be made to the accounting information contained in the Quarterly Financial Information referred above, in order to be in accordance with the standards issued by the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM), applicable to the preparation of the Quarterly Financial Information, including CVM Instruction 469/08.

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4. As mentioned in Note 2, the accounting practices adopted in Brazil changed during 2008 and the effects of the first time adoption were only recorded by the Company and its subsidiaries during the fourth quarter of 2008 and incorporated into in the annual financial statements as of December 31, 2008. The statements of income, changes in shareholders’ equity, cash flows and added value, for the quarter ended September 30, 2008, presented in conjunction with the current quarterly information, are not being restated for comparison purposes, as permitted by Circular Notice /CVM/SNC/SEP 02/2009.

5. As mentioned in Note 29 of the Quarterly Financial Information, the Company has been negotiating with insurance and reinsurance companies in Brazil and abroad, in order to obtain insurance coverage for its operational risks.

November 3, 2009

KPMG Auditores Independentes     
CRC 2SP014428/O-6-F-RJ     
Original in Portuguese signed by     
Anselmo Neves Macedo    Carla Bellangero 
Accountant CRC 1SP160482/O-6-S-RJ    Accountant CRC 1SP196751/O-4-S-RJ 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

GROUP TABLE  DESCRIPTION  PAGE 
01  01  IDENTIFICATION 
01  02  HEAD OFFICE 
01  03  INVESTOR RELATIONS OFFICER (Company Mailing Address)
01  04  ITR REFERENCE 
01  05  CAPITAL STOCK 
01  06  COMPANY PROFILE 
01  07  COMPANIES NOT INCLUDED IN THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 
01  08  CASH DIVIDENDS 
01  09  SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL AND CHANGES IN THE CURRENT YEAR 
01  10  INVESTOR RELATIONS OFFICER 
02  01  BALANCE SHEET – ASSETS 
02  02  BALANCE SHEET – LIABILITIES 
03  01  STATEMENT OF INCOME 
04  01  04 - STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS  10 
05  01  05 - STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY FROM 7/1/2009 TO 9/30/2009  12 
05  02  05 - STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY FROM 1/1/2009 TO 9/30/2009  13 
08  01  CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET – ASSETS  14 
08  02  CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET – LIABILITIES  16 
09  01  CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF INCOME  18 
10  01  10.01 - CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS  20 
11  01  11 – CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY FROM 7/1/2009 TO 9/30/2009  22 
11  02  11 – CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY FROM 1/1/2009 TO 9/30/2009  23 
06  01  NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  24 
07  01  COMMENTS ON THE COMPANY’S PERFORMANCE IN THE QUARTER  83 
12  01  COMMENTS ON THE CONSOLIDATED PERFORMANCE IN THE QUARTER  84 
13  01  EQUITY IN SUBSIDIARIES AND/OR ASSOCIATED COMPANIES  96 
14  01  CHARACTERISTICS OF PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ISSUANCE OF DEBENTURES  99 
19  01  INVESTMENT PROJECTS  100 
21  01  SPECIAL REVIEW REPORT  101 
    CSN OVERSEAS   
    CSN STEEL   
    COMPANHIA METALURGICA PRADA   
    CSN ENERGY   
    ITAGUAÍ LOGÍSTICA   
    AÇOS LONGOS   
    CSN CIMENTOS   
    CIA METALIC DO NORDESTE   
    INAL NORDESTE   
    CSN PANAMA   
    CSN ENERGIA   
    MINERAÇÃO NACIONAL   

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GROUP TABLE  DESCRIPTION  PAGE 
    CONGONHAS MINÉRIOS   
    GALVASUD   
    NACIONAL MINÉRIOS   
    SEPETIBA TECON   
    TRANSNORDESTINA LOGÍSTICA S.A   
    ITÁ ENERGÉTICA   
    MRS LOGÍSTICA   
    ESTANHO DE RONDÔNIA ERSA   
    CSN EXPORT   

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SIGNATURE
 
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Date: November 30, 2009

 
COMPANHIA SIDERÚRGICA NACIONAL
By:
/S/ Benjamin Steinbruch

 
Benjamin Steinbruch
Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 
By:
/S/ Paulo Penido Pinto Marques

 
Paulo Penido Pinto Marques
Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer

 

 

 
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