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 October 2006 October 2005 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 3,570,882 4,213,596 3,626,548 3,761,847 Ingots And Steel For Castings 20,462 21,482 26,983 23,991 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 370,853 237,230 716,590 460,604 Structural Shapes Heavy 102,165 66,283 104,103 64,215 Plates Cut Lengths 306,786 419,517 296,501 387,047 Plates In Coils 117,476 81,389 113,063 78,997 Rails Standard 17,192 12,169 27,174 18,186 Bars - Hot Rolled 658,471 548,847 661,618 529,220 Bars - Light Shaped 20,830 12,841 17,961 10,826 Bars - Cold Finished 94,146 146,312 125,342 151,698 Tool Steel 133,409 331,634 159,234 381,463 Standard Pipe 11,778 29,118 12,920 28,755 Oil Country Goods 428,213 810,691 311,796 475,214 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 230,544 272,328 140,952 168,979 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 9,434 21,517 1,447 1,803 Line Pipe - Not Specified 1,878 3,888 800 1,936 Mechanical Tubing 109,231 204,863 109,854 179,983 Pressure Tubing 24,726 83,178 26,824 63,363 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 4,259 18,822 2,896 12,281 Structural Pipe & Tube 32,274 51,289 15,959 29,628 Pipe For Piling 992 991 2,486 2,333 Wire Drawn 83,843 118,421 83,764 116,781 Sheets Hot Rolled 165,790 127,853 162,443 120,506 Sheets Cold Rolled 228,227 188,895 154,123 127,676 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 243,210 178,725 207,901 139,993 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 59,217 51,157 45,558 40,256 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 62,871 101,716 63,833 79,189 Strip - Hot Rolled 5,355 4,342 7,044 3,863 Strip - Cold Rolled 27,251 68,100 27,380 63,061 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 Janet Freas (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau. SOURCE: U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary November 2006 (CB-06-188)