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 October 2007 October 2006 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 3,609,426 4,682,419 3,570,882 4,213,596 Ingots And Steel For Castings 11,824 18,233 20,462 21,482 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 494,207 374,937 370,853 237,230 Structural Shapes Heavy 62,227 52,012 102,165 66,283 Plates Cut Lengths 314,301 491,794 306,786 419,517 Plates In Coils 96,477 66,815 117,476 81,389 Rails Standard 33,497 24,582 17,192 12,169 Bars - Hot Rolled 535,623 513,005 658,471 548,847 Bars - Light Shaped 5,919 5,314 20,830 12,841 Bars - Cold Finished 77,023 145,937 94,146 146,312 Tool Steel 114,491 315,220 133,409 331,634 Standard Pipe 16,085 44,809 11,778 29,118 Oil Country Goods 429,162 704,967 428,213 810,691 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 443,703 616,684 230,544 272,328 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 6,994 13,397 9,434 21,517 Line Pipe - Not Specified 3,185 2,810 1,878 3,888 Mechanical Tubing 113,064 233,246 109,231 204,863 Pressure Tubing 25,393 100,926 24,726 83,178 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 3,651 19,600 4,259 18,822 Structural Pipe & Tube 29,937 60,012 32,274 51,289 Pipe For Piling 1,791 1,637 992 991 Wire Drawn 73,697 111,080 83,843 118,421 Sheets Hot Rolled 203,543 174,270 165,790 127,853 Sheets Cold Rolled 188,592 176,136 228,227 188,895 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 139,919 120,032 243,210 178,725 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 64,352 69,131 59,217 51,157 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 83,957 149,815 62,871 101,716 Strip - Hot Rolled 3,521 2,629 5,355 4,342 Strip - Cold Rolled 33,292 73,388 27,251 68,100 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 Janet Freas (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau. SOURCE: U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary November 2007 (CB-07-185)