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 July 2006 July 2005 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 2,488,541 2,890,713 2,664,409 2,716,720 Ingots And Steel For Castings 16,734 15,883 19,021 16,974 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 225,063 136,939 583,408 375,648 Structural Shapes Heavy 80,223 49,637 71,520 46,913 Plates Cut Lengths 213,703 291,777 210,127 270,797 Plates In Coils 81,164 56,824 70,706 53,019 Rails Standard 11,804 8,085 24,746 16,334 Bars - Hot Rolled 501,999 412,601 478,333 390,569 Bars - Light Shaped 16,945 10,230 10,455 6,325 Bars - Cold Finished 68,604 102,532 92,108 109,554 Tool Steel 98,776 242,785 111,764 257,520 Standard Pipe 7,982 20,867 8,860 18,719 Oil Country Goods 295,676 547,149 222,845 330,495 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 140,434 156,043 103,503 129,188 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 8,041 19,730 827 891 Line Pipe - Not Specified 1,022 3,274 78 291 Mechanical Tubing 75,827 140,047 75,470 120,709 Pressure Tubing 18,428 63,581 21,298 48,669 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 3,002 12,233 1,896 7,905 Structural Pipe & Tube 21,115 33,757 12,078 21,695 Pipe For Piling 503 495 1,186 1,106 Wire Drawn 59,920 83,433 61,090 85,100 Sheets Hot Rolled 117,429 88,096 117,153 86,561 Sheets Cold Rolled 154,137 125,207 114,906 93,143 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 163,971 117,033 148,120 99,027 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 40,949 35,249 29,128 26,428 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 43,094 66,380 49,276 57,484 Strip - Hot Rolled 3,393 2,658 5,083 2,710 Strip - Cold Rolled 18,603 48,187 19,425 42,946 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 August 2006 (CB-06-144)