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 September 2007 September 2006 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 3,237,659 4,203,100 3,215,703 3,783,565 Ingots And Steel For Castings 11,669 17,998 19,416 20,250 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 400,791 302,754 339,394 209,353 Structural Shapes Heavy 54,843 45,194 90,102 57,221 Plates Cut Lengths 281,379 426,822 277,399 383,709 Plates In Coils 88,223 61,014 104,683 72,509 Rails Standard 27,160 20,662 16,432 11,567 Bars - Hot Rolled 484,873 463,103 596,718 498,474 Bars - Light Shaped 5,139 4,725 19,587 11,971 Bars - Cold Finished 69,515 131,141 85,661 132,484 Tool Steel 102,775 282,033 122,484 301,402 Standard Pipe 14,080 39,226 10,353 26,420 Oil Country Goods 401,155 655,938 388,923 736,816 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 404,632 560,948 205,573 236,931 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 6,417 12,277 9,153 21,112 Line Pipe - Not Specified 3,185 2,810 1,039 3,359 Mechanical Tubing 105,437 214,179 98,250 184,502 Pressure Tubing 23,617 93,311 23,032 76,897 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 3,122 16,534 3,770 15,672 Structural Pipe & Tube 26,603 53,603 29,311 45,533 Pipe For Piling 1,682 1,535 964 962 Wire Drawn 66,690 99,926 75,975 106,656 Sheets Hot Rolled 186,945 160,090 148,077 113,598 Sheets Cold Rolled 175,733 164,539 198,493 164,654 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 127,033 107,711 217,195 158,017 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 57,634 61,577 52,103 44,729 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 75,256 137,278 53,754 86,189 Strip - Hot Rolled 3,186 2,413 4,472 3,517 Strip - Cold Rolled 28,884 63,758 23,389 59,060 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 October 2007 (CB-07-162)