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 August 2007 August 2006 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 2,961,496 3,835,180 2,853,916 3,333,570 Ingots And Steel For Castings 11,268 17,519 18,909 19,505 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 390,137 295,040 290,063 177,231 Structural Shapes Heavy 49,547 40,438 85,962 54,065 Plates Cut Lengths 244,369 377,200 243,817 332,428 Plates In Coils 78,978 54,636 90,936 63,264 Rails Standard 26,843 20,416 13,681 9,644 Bars - Hot Rolled 430,471 411,774 549,625 455,398 Bars - Light Shaped 4,690 4,356 18,021 10,996 Bars - Cold Finished 64,983 120,342 76,306 116,415 Tool Steel 93,396 255,210 111,729 275,266 Standard Pipe 13,351 36,828 9,529 24,512 Oil Country Goods 367,398 603,379 338,414 631,058 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 374,950 516,041 178,372 202,326 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 6,135 11,577 9,007 20,753 Line Pipe - Not Specified 3,035 2,646 1,035 3,298 Mechanical Tubing 97,858 195,821 89,609 166,056 Pressure Tubing 21,699 85,624 21,128 71,420 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 2,638 13,831 3,308 13,655 Structural Pipe & Tube 25,681 50,420 23,987 38,782 Pipe For Piling 1,567 1,424 644 638 Wire Drawn 60,140 89,524 68,968 96,365 Sheets Hot Rolled 165,814 141,905 130,185 100,295 Sheets Cold Rolled 162,703 152,032 172,566 142,306 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 114,053 95,568 190,560 137,549 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 51,451 55,118 44,176 38,308 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 69,265 126,987 48,006 74,407 Strip - Hot Rolled 3,085 2,278 3,829 3,012 Strip - Cold Rolled 25,990 57,248 21,542 54,616 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 Maria Iseman (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau. SOURCE: U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary September 2007 (CB-07-147)