Exhibit 2A:  U.S. Imports for Consumption of Alloy Steel
Products:  (Census Basis)
Not Seasonally Adjusted

Quantity in metric tons/ value in thousands of dollars.
Details may not equal totals due to rounding

                                January 2006            January 2005
                                Cumulative to           Cumulative to
                                Date - Final            Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities           413,865     422,495     321,679     322,395

Ingots And Steel For Castings          1,676       1,597       1,524       1,414
Blooms, Billets And Slabs            100,175      51,653      42,973      31,884
Structural Shapes Heavy               17,039      10,068      14,132       8,388
Plates Cut Lengths                    29,761      41,887      19,221      24,285
Plates In Coils                        8,902       7,942      16,833      14,547
Rails Standard                           663         484         994         495
Bars - Hot Rolled                     64,096      51,740      67,710      55,423
Bars - Light Shaped                    2,946       1,727         776         486
Bars - Cold Finished                   5,167       8,996      12,178      11,829
Tool Steel                            20,513      38,687      16,511      30,726
Standard Pipe                            877       2,915         682       1,607
Oil Country Goods                     40,659      70,745      31,057      46,646
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete      25,971      28,977       2,026       2,147
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet         148         163          13           9
Line Pipe - Not Specified                184         424         (-)         (-)
Mechanical Tubing                      9,810      19,343      10,504      15,705
Pressure Tubing                        2,420       8,707       2,387       4,473
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified              369       1,521         313       1,107
Structural Pipe & Tube                 3,110       4,036       1,900       3,160
Pipe For Piling                           21          19          20          13
Wire Drawn                             8,683      11,923       9,516      12,811
Sheets Hot Rolled                     11,601       8,766      18,843      13,203
Sheets Cold Rolled                    16,205      12,418      15,552      11,975
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        33,251      22,364      23,565      15,088
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt         3,544       3,401       2,649       2,570
Sheets & Strip - Electrical            2,356       3,906       6,726       6,443
Strip - Hot Rolled                       106          66         593         292
Strip - Cold Rolled                    3,615       8,019       2,479       5,669
                                           

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
February 2006 (CB-06-44)