Exhibit 2: U.S. Imports for Consumption of 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 21,550,718 20,383,560 28,186,735 20,440,910 Ingots And Steel For Castings 25,107 73,166 32,460 52,918 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 4,238,835 2,514,993 5,932,936 2,751,291 Wire Rods 1,100,433 670,495 1,929,232 945,467 Structural Shapes Heavy 568,636 437,694 657,168 410,736 Steel Piling 75,127 80,382 71,981 63,087 Plates Cut Lengths 875,816 1,148,719 1,005,941 923,519 Plates In Coils 671,299 596,756 1,127,310 668,496 Rails Standard 202,606 146,020 182,534 129,349 Rails All Other 46,272 32,835 20,050 16,622 Railroad Accessories 10,300 8,838 8,190 6,408 Bars - Hot Rolled 826,344 793,415 1,059,351 867,666 Bars - Light Shaped 155,743 119,007 191,774 128,494 Bars - Reinforcing 1,407,390 747,052 1,656,634 721,449 Bars - Cold Finished 217,948 556,744 251,562 469,441 Tool Steel 93,396 255,210 111,729 275,266 Standard Pipe 947,950 749,793 991,562 734,090 Oil Country Goods 1,224,159 1,581,511 1,291,090 1,603,018 Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete 1,143,455 1,475,286 503,620 540,161 Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet 313,590 329,453 318,847 330,209 Line Pipe - Not Specified 330,002 244,530 258,409 202,044 Mechanical Tubing 462,998 574,325 504,955 582,798 Pressure Tubing 79,174 185,969 69,190 138,897 Stainless Pipe & Tubing 111,659 815,894 88,878 509,020 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 14,563 36,235 11,689 33,378 Structural Pipe & Tube 450,742 397,240 405,349 343,670 Pipe For Piling 24,677 17,907 14,715 11,350 Wire Drawn 512,191 685,944 579,544 671,384 Black Plate 36,806 25,412 54,886 38,071 Tin Plate 313,514 244,838 300,697 225,497 Tin Free Steel 79,968 68,373 80,777 68,480 Sheets Hot Rolled 1,655,611 989,660 3,269,962 1,709,586 Sheets Cold Rolled 1,212,637 1,679,515 2,250,110 1,862,124 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 1,350,288 1,126,343 2,214,363 1,601,514 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 121,547 117,272 122,364 99,592 Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat 399,632 377,766 396,587 334,823 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 69,265 126,987 48,006 74,407 Strip - Hot Rolled 60,268 49,291 53,645 42,427 Strip - Cold Rolled 120,767 302,689 118,641 254,159 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)