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 March 2006 March 2005 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 1,061,417 1,177,326 1,024,840 1,020,409 Ingots And Steel For Castings 7,044 6,556 6,154 5,566 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 131,413 71,544 209,664 134,929 Structural Shapes Heavy 39,919 23,616 28,586 19,441 Plates Cut Lengths 100,841 137,314 82,347 104,507 Plates In Coils 25,338 18,832 30,248 24,818 Rails Standard 2,803 2,107 10,265 6,087 Bars - Hot Rolled 207,584 167,895 186,250 154,513 Bars - Light Shaped 8,843 5,189 3,660 2,252 Bars - Cold Finished 23,459 37,229 33,377 37,358 Tool Steel 45,777 105,195 46,883 99,001 Standard Pipe 2,862 8,085 2,613 5,763 Oil Country Goods 104,890 191,935 79,978 115,805 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 66,130 71,820 20,838 26,639 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 199 431 136 135 Line Pipe - Not Specified 414 1,114 (-) (-) Mechanical Tubing 31,185 57,964 32,908 48,956 Pressure Tubing 6,654 24,738 7,942 15,701 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 1,155 4,309 846 3,341 Structural Pipe & Tube 10,784 15,181 5,239 8,623 Pipe For Piling 62 60 674 591 Wire Drawn 23,372 33,093 26,883 36,056 Sheets Hot Rolled 35,690 26,867 49,122 34,660 Sheets Cold Rolled 52,993 40,445 53,545 42,755 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 82,222 58,195 64,382 43,759 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 20,856 17,677 10,410 9,848 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 18,861 27,138 21,520 21,443 Strip - Hot Rolled 1,267 1,026 2,273 1,184 Strip - Cold Rolled 8,800 21,767 8,097 16,677 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 2006 (CB-06-78)