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
                                           

                                      June 2005                 June 2004
                                      Cumulative to             Cumulative to
                                      Date - Final              Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities         2,335,177   2,351,258   1,802,465   1,248,160

Ingots And Steel For Castings         14,986      13,700       5,446       3,482
Blooms, Billets And Slabs            532,737     342,473     337,475     127,958
Structural Shapes Heavy               63,093      41,781      39,731      21,057
Plates Cut Lengths                   174,055     227,318     131,014      91,650
Plates In Coils                       59,017      44,791      44,050      23,685
Rails Standard                        23,746      15,588      35,864      20,679
Bars - Hot Rolled                    404,224     329,012     383,849     213,988
Bars - Light Shaped                    8,824       5,306       7,540       4,331
Bars - Cold Finished                  83,349      97,802      28,900      33,764
Tool Steel                            95,581     214,886      73,779     109,581
Standard Pipe                          6,723      13,911       4,434       5,924
Oil Country Goods                    194,861     287,455     127,443     134,540
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete      90,038     113,456     123,876      75,541
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet         296         324       2,166       2,071
Line Pipe - Not Specified                (-)         (-)         (-)         (-)
Mechanical Tubing                     63,819     100,689      45,876      49,550
Pressure Tubing                       18,052      38,969      15,469      22,327
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified            1,646       6,922       1,788       6,689
Structural Pipe & Tube                11,018      19,237       7,410      14,469
Pipe For Piling                        1,177       1,097       1,445         880
Wire Drawn                            53,010      73,628      52,329      57,260
Sheets Hot Rolled                    102,721      76,580      71,385      38,627
Sheets Cold Rolled                   105,287      84,733      58,418      38,713
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped       136,506      90,998     131,627      73,982
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        26,856      24,532      19,319      16,549
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           42,660      47,354      35,402      30,661
Strip - Hot Rolled                     4,207       2,272       3,119       1,755
Strip - Cold Rolled                   16,688      36,443      13,311      28,445
                                           
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
July 2005 (CB-05-123)