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U. S. Steel Prices Common Stock Offering

March 4, 2004 — United States Steel Corp. has agreed to sell 8,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $38.50 per share in an underwritten public offering. U. S. Steel has agreed to an underwriting discount of $1.73 per share with net proceeds to U. S. Steel of $36.77 per share.

U. S. Steel intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of its common stock to redeem 35% of the $535 million face amount of its 10-3/4% debentures. Any remaining proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, which may include the redemption of up to 35% in aggregate principal amount of its 9-3/4% Senior Notes due May 15, 2010, the reduction of other debt and payments to employee benefit plans.

U. S. Steel has granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to 1,200,000 additional shares to cover over-allotments. J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Morgan Stanley are acting as joint book-runners, and Lehman Brothers Inc. and UBS Securities LLC as co-managers.

U. S. Steel cautions that this announcement does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation
of an offer to buy. The company also states that there shall not be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful.

U. S. Steel, through its domestic operations, is engaged in the production, sale and transportation of steel mill products, coke, and iron-bearing taconite pellets; the management of mineral resources; real estate development; and engineering and consulting services and, through its European operations, which include U.S. Steel Kosice located in Slovakia and U.S. Steel Balkan located in Serbia, in the production and sale of steel mill products. Certain business activities are conducted through joint ventures and partially owned companies. United States Steel Corp. is a Delaware corporation.

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