Not Seasonally Adjusted Exhibit 2A: U.S. Imports for Consumption of Alloy Steel Products: (Census Basis) Quantity in metric tons/ value in thousands of dollars. Details may not equal totals due to rounding March 2005 March 2004 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 1,024,840 1,020,409 854,965 547,331 Ingots And Steel For Castings 6,154 5,566 2,001 1,157 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 209,664 134,929 186,349 62,540 Structural Shapes Heavy 28,586 19,441 12,148 6,706 Plates Cut Lengths 82,347 104,507 65,722 41,476 Plates In Coils 30,248 24,818 15,973 7,400 Rails Standard 10,265 6,087 5,851 3,118 Bars - Hot Rolled 186,250 154,513 202,983 102,103 Bars - Light Shaped 3,660 2,252 5,334 2,866 Bars - Cold Finished 33,377 37,358 9,269 10,838 Tool Steel 46,883 99,001 33,859 48,930 Standard Pipe 2,613 5,763 2,538 3,246 Oil Country Goods 79,978 115,805 54,721 58,163 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 20,838 26,639 46,122 27,709 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 136 135 2,049 1,902 Line Pipe - Not Specified 0 0 0 0 Mechanical Tubing 32,908 48,956 19,842 21,434 Pressure Tubing 7,942 15,701 5,198 8,702 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 846 3,341 886 3,489 Structural Pipe & Tube 5,239 8,623 3,444 6,800 Pipe For Piling 674 591 318 192 Wire Drawn 26,883 36,056 25,521 25,904 Sheets Hot Rolled 49,122 34,660 33,655 18,020 Sheets Cold Rolled 53,545 42,755 28,992 18,761 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 64,382 43,759 57,493 30,626 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 10,410 9,848 10,116 8,721 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 21,520 21,443 15,521 12,562 Strip - Hot Rolled 2,273 1,184 1,539 892 Strip - Cold Rolled 8,097 16,677 7,520 13,074 NOTE: See the cover report specifically explaining the current month's preliminary steel imports trade data or www.census.gov/foreign-trade/Press-Release/steel_index.html. CONTACT: For more information, contact Nick Orsini (301-763-6959) or Vanessa Ware (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau. SOURCE: U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary April 2005 (CB-05-69)