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 2007 July 2006 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 2,615,442 3,378,800 2,488,541 2,890,713 Ingots And Steel For Castings 9,917 15,690 16,734 15,883 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 350,367 258,773 225,063 136,939 Structural Shapes Heavy 38,578 32,053 80,223 49,637 Plates Cut Lengths 213,267 323,077 213,703 291,777 Plates In Coils 67,540 46,523 81,164 56,824 Rails Standard 19,739 14,824 11,804 8,085 Bars - Hot Rolled 378,749 361,189 501,999 412,601 Bars - Light Shaped 3,922 3,768 16,945 10,230 Bars - Cold Finished 56,155 106,468 68,604 102,532 Tool Steel 82,871 224,490 98,776 242,785 Standard Pipe 10,840 30,485 7,982 20,867 Oil Country Goods 329,863 548,812 295,676 547,149 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 335,178 458,566 140,434 156,043 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 6,013 11,246 8,041 19,730 Line Pipe - Not Specified 3,027 2,637 1,022 3,274 Mechanical Tubing 86,940 172,454 75,827 140,047 Pressure Tubing 18,872 74,902 18,428 63,581 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 2,437 12,721 3,002 12,233 Structural Pipe & Tube 21,895 42,762 21,115 33,757 Pipe For Piling 1,477 1,332 503 495 Wire Drawn 52,426 77,951 59,920 83,433 Sheets Hot Rolled 148,077 125,750 117,429 88,096 Sheets Cold Rolled 148,796 139,052 154,137 125,207 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 99,160 81,937 163,971 117,033 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 42,806 46,646 40,949 35,249 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 60,670 112,503 43,094 66,380 Strip - Hot Rolled 2,985 2,201 3,393 2,658 Strip - Cold Rolled 22,876 49,991 18,603 48,187 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 2007 (CB-07-133)