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

                                January 2007            January 2006
                                Cumulative to           Cumulative to
                                Date - Final            Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities           354,018     444,346     413,865     422,495

Ingots And Steel For Castings          1,661       2,931       1,676       1,597
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             68,065      50,460     100,175      51,653
Structural Shapes Heavy                4,841       3,421      17,039      10,068
Plates Cut Lengths                    20,209      32,874      29,761      41,887
Plates In Coils                        5,866       4,247       8,902       7,942
Rails Standard                         1,155         780         663         484
Bars - Hot Rolled                     56,120      53,253      64,096      51,740
Bars - Light Shaped                      382         286       2,946       1,727
Bars - Cold Finished                   9,405      18,712       5,167       8,996
Tool Steel                            11,086      32,483      20,513      38,687
Standard Pipe                          1,539       3,853         877       2,915
Oil Country Goods                     47,016      76,937      40,659      70,745
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete      17,714      27,120      25,971      28,977
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet         (-)         (-)         148         163
Line Pipe - Not Specified                100         109         184         424
Mechanical Tubing                     13,547      25,083       9,810      19,343
Pressure Tubing                        2,290      10,175       2,420       8,707
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified              351       1,336         369       1,521
Structural Pipe & Tube                 3,675       6,348       3,110       4,036
Pipe For Piling                          884         795          21          19
Wire Drawn                             7,082      10,582       8,683      11,923
Sheets Hot Rolled                     25,550      21,786      11,601       8,766
Sheets Cold Rolled                    19,848      18,996      16,205      12,418
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        21,275      16,671      33,251      22,364
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt         3,959       4,317       3,544       3,401
Sheets & Strip - Electrical            7,146      13,997       2,356       3,906
Strip - Hot Rolled                       449         261         106          66
Strip - Cold Rolled                    2,801       6,536       3,615       8,019
                                           

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
February 2007 (CB-07-43)