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

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

Total Selected Commodities         1,427,390   1,603,520   1,484,184   1,463,079

Ingots And Steel For Castings          9,598       8,844       8,121       7,456
Blooms, Billets And Slabs            135,903      75,299     338,998     213,674
Structural Shapes Heavy               56,366      33,934      37,686      26,163
Plates Cut Lengths                   126,637     172,522     113,259     145,449
Plates In Coils                       37,954      27,684      40,692      32,106
Rails Standard                         6,812       4,796      12,640       7,827
Bars - Hot Rolled                    281,479     226,712     269,706     216,302
Bars - Light Shaped                   11,792       7,011       5,518       3,352
Bars - Cold Finished                  41,483      59,000      50,141      58,175
Tool Steel                            58,352     137,448      63,720     139,291
Standard Pipe                          3,702      10,988       3,968       8,203
Oil Country Goods                    164,079     290,415     122,842     175,653
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete      87,981      94,448      37,377      47,829
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet         341         768         157         170
Line Pipe - Not Specified                523       1,554         (-)         (-)
Mechanical Tubing                     42,789      80,149      42,019      63,353
Pressure Tubing                       10,776      39,163      11,376      22,796
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified            1,576       5,974       1,139       4,762
Structural Pipe & Tube                13,737      19,664       6,745      11,332
Pipe For Piling                          199         188         892         809
Wire Drawn                            31,401      43,878      35,067      47,851
Sheets Hot Rolled                     56,573      43,407      66,130      47,813
Sheets Cold Rolled                    79,190      60,565      66,766      53,184
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped       106,613      74,987      90,963      60,165
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        25,667      21,883      14,469      13,667
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           22,876      33,247      29,425      31,176
Strip - Hot Rolled                     2,139       1,447       3,236       1,719
Strip - Cold Rolled                   10,852      27,549      11,132      22,800
                                           

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
May 2006 (CB-06-100)