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

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

Total Selected Commodities         2,103,915   2,417,747   2,335,177   2,351,258

Ingots And Steel For Castings         15,461      14,296      14,986      13,700
Blooms, Billets And Slabs            183,449     110,520     532,737     342,473
Structural Shapes Heavy               73,328      44,851      63,093      41,781
Plates Cut Lengths                   182,352     249,290     174,055     227,318
Plates In Coils                       65,784      46,821      59,017      44,791
Rails Standard                         8,774       5,947      23,746      15,588
Bars - Hot Rolled                    432,375     352,384     404,224     329,012
Bars - Light Shaped                   15,992       9,605       8,824       5,306
Bars - Cold Finished                  58,840      86,799      83,349      97,802
Tool Steel                            85,138     208,499      95,581     214,886
Standard Pipe                          6,216      16,798       6,723      13,911
Oil Country Goods                    252,496     457,859     194,861     287,455
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete     101,792     108,620      90,038     113,456
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet       2,616       8,227         296         324
Line Pipe - Not Specified                846       2,252         (-)         (-)
Mechanical Tubing                     64,749     119,630      63,819     100,689
Pressure Tubing                       16,626      58,344      18,052      38,969
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified            2,584      10,149       1,646       6,922
Structural Pipe & Tube                19,531      30,281      11,018      19,237
Pipe For Piling                          399         391       1,177       1,097
Wire Drawn                            50,125      70,231      53,010      73,628
Sheets Hot Rolled                    101,564      75,300     102,721      76,580
Sheets Cold Rolled                   127,747     100,681     105,287      84,733
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped       145,072     103,238     136,506      90,998
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        35,768      30,569      26,856      24,532
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           35,597      53,102      42,660      47,354
Strip - Hot Rolled                     2,915       2,240       4,207       2,272
Strip - Cold Rolled                   15,780      40,825      16,688      36,443
                                           

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
July 2006 (CB-06-130)