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

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

Total Selected Commodities           661,847     843,526     719,106     768,051

Ingots And Steel For Castings          2,400       3,938       4,191       3,841
Blooms, Billets And Slabs            116,793      86,026     119,088      63,390
Structural Shapes Heavy               13,121      10,101      34,407      19,887
Plates Cut Lengths                    40,257      66,429      57,882      80,663
Plates In Coils                       17,252      11,288      20,877      15,572
Rails Standard                         1,268         886       1,749       1,366
Bars - Hot Rolled                     98,791      94,533     132,602     107,193
Bars - Light Shaped                      922         650       6,188       3,571
Bars - Cold Finished                  18,025      35,307      16,163      25,523
Tool Steel                            21,623      60,998      32,267      71,070
Standard Pipe                          2,762       7,538       2,002       6,033
Oil Country Goods                     90,475     157,522      66,093     121,351
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete      39,909      61,244      30,606      35,535
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet         363         435         169         215
Line Pipe - Not Specified                175         202         309         746
Mechanical Tubing                     22,756      41,872      20,619      38,493
Pressure Tubing                        3,913      15,747       4,215      15,468
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified              508       2,196         651       2,780
Structural Pipe & Tube                 5,234       9,654       4,717       6,635
Pipe For Piling                          938         846          45          45
Wire Drawn                            13,017      19,496      14,915      21,146
Sheets Hot Rolled                     40,079      33,238      24,426      18,471
Sheets Cold Rolled                    42,228      40,945      36,526      27,123
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        34,646      27,445      56,808      39,903
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        11,902      12,326      11,652      10,294
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           16,086      29,944      13,342      16,712
Strip - Hot Rolled                       648         378         576         627
Strip - Cold Rolled                    5,758      12,343       6,020      14,399
                                           

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
March 2007 (CB-07-58)