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 March 2007 March 2006 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 1,022,932 1,329,184 1,061,417 1,177,326 Ingots And Steel For Castings 3,050 5,156 7,044 6,556 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 143,171 109,068 131,413 71,544 Structural Shapes Heavy 18,827 15,053 39,919 23,616 Plates Cut Lengths 76,185 118,656 100,841 137,314 Plates In Coils 22,763 15,048 25,338 18,832 Rails Standard 6,043 4,563 2,803 2,107 Bars - Hot Rolled 158,576 151,345 207,584 167,895 Bars - Light Shaped 1,199 878 8,843 5,189 Bars - Cold Finished 24,306 49,523 23,459 37,229 Tool Steel 34,654 95,575 45,777 105,195 Standard Pipe 4,399 11,595 2,862 8,085 Oil Country Goods 142,336 245,897 104,890 191,935 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 84,734 121,036 66,130 71,820 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 412 537 199 431 Line Pipe - Not Specified 192 307 414 1,114 Mechanical Tubing 35,849 67,161 31,185 57,964 Pressure Tubing 7,016 27,874 6,654 24,738 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 950 3,981 1,155 4,309 Structural Pipe & Tube 9,845 16,397 10,784 15,181 Pipe For Piling 971 875 62 60 Wire Drawn 20,413 30,647 23,372 33,093 Sheets Hot Rolled 57,144 46,909 35,690 26,867 Sheets Cold Rolled 66,355 62,450 52,993 40,445 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 49,208 39,369 82,222 58,195 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 19,178 21,221 20,856 17,677 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 24,733 47,690 18,861 27,138 Strip - Hot Rolled 1,337 807 1,267 1,026 Strip - Cold Rolled 9,086 19,568 8,800 21,767 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 April 2007 (CB-07-72)