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

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

Total Selected Commodities           719,106     768,051     641,168     635,660

Ingots And Steel For Castings          4,191       3,841       4,714       4,295
Blooms, Billets And Slabs            119,088      63,390     114,513      75,128
Structural Shapes Heavy               34,407      19,887      21,856      14,136
Plates Cut Lengths                    57,882      80,663      50,695      65,968
Plates In Coils                       20,877      15,572      23,305      19,570
Rails Standard                         1,749       1,366       5,561       3,304
Bars - Hot Rolled                    132,602     107,193     126,437     103,832
Bars - Light Shaped                    6,188       3,571       1,527         945
Bars - Cold Finished                  16,163      25,523      22,911      26,038
Tool Steel                            32,267      71,070      31,337      63,357
Standard Pipe                          2,002       6,033       1,366       3,049
Oil Country Goods                     66,093     121,351      51,611      73,356
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete      30,606      35,535       2,030       2,173
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet         169         215          67          50
Line Pipe - Not Specified                309         746         (-)         (-)
Mechanical Tubing                     20,619      38,493      22,159      32,064
Pressure Tubing                        4,215      15,468       4,870       9,436
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified              651       2,780         565       2,096
Structural Pipe & Tube                 4,717       6,635       3,849       5,706
Pipe For Piling                           45          45         521         426
Wire Drawn                            14,915      21,146      17,424      23,305
Sheets Hot Rolled                     24,426      18,471      28,441      19,791
Sheets Cold Rolled                    36,526      27,123      35,004      27,433
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        56,808      39,903      43,232      28,854
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        11,652      10,294       5,545       5,294
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           13,342      16,712      14,917      14,733
Strip - Hot Rolled                       576         627       1,545         828
Strip - Cold Rolled                    6,020      14,399       5,167      10,495
                                           

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
March 2006 (CB-06-61)