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

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

Total Selected Commodities         1,779,283   2,032,596   1,921,693   1,909,672

Ingots And Steel For Castings         13,284      12,462      12,212      11,263
Blooms, Billets And Slabs            168,994      97,812     452,920     284,086
Structural Shapes Heavy               70,151      42,613      52,663      34,744
Plates Cut Lengths                   150,452     206,774     144,643     184,592
Plates In Coils                       47,967      34,557      49,090      38,041
Rails Standard                         7,126       5,038      18,325      11,830
Bars - Hot Rolled                    360,557     297,760     339,030     274,483
Bars - Light Shaped                   14,214       8,451       7,746       4,628
Bars - Cold Finished                  48,906      71,581      62,548      73,276
Tool Steel                            71,145     169,991      80,710     178,628
Standard Pipe                          5,135      14,544       5,154      10,724
Oil Country Goods                    210,940     386,090     162,409     240,022
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete     101,038     107,689      62,974      78,419
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet         394       1,292         203         216
Line Pipe - Not Specified                603       1,926         (-)         (-)
Mechanical Tubing                     56,278     103,652      54,277      84,734
Pressure Tubing                       13,339      47,586      15,370      31,351
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified            1,981       7,673       1,388       5,889
Structural Pipe & Tube                17,669      26,150       8,981      14,987
Pipe For Piling                          320         303         969         891
Wire Drawn                            41,138      57,439      43,404      59,822
Sheets Hot Rolled                     71,160      54,695      79,866      59,027
Sheets Cold Rolled                   102,993      79,854      82,770      66,452
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped       126,410      89,643     111,797      74,716
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        33,202      27,996      19,190      18,229
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           28,169      42,535      35,700      37,301
Strip - Hot Rolled                     2,257       1,513       3,629       1,953
Strip - Cold Rolled                   13,463      34,979      13,725      29,370
                                           

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
June 2006 (CB-06-113)