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 October 2007 October 2006 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 26,233,604 24,908,250 35,242,246 26,127,946 Ingots And Steel For Castings 27,554 81,761 35,244 58,612 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 5,325,736 3,132,851 7,362,487 3,565,775 Wire Rods 1,263,838 788,704 2,405,671 1,197,108 Structural Shapes Heavy 673,103 529,679 790,866 505,353 Steel Piling 89,838 96,136 86,985 77,796 Plates Cut Lengths 1,097,911 1,424,499 1,276,768 1,206,714 Plates In Coils 800,114 700,423 1,390,956 844,381 Rails Standard 245,619 177,013 223,214 157,975 Rails All Other 57,268 40,448 22,973 19,159 Railroad Accessories 12,624 11,328 9,679 7,531 Bars - Hot Rolled 1,023,067 985,007 1,263,185 1,044,592 Bars - Light Shaped 184,459 142,813 242,263 166,000 Bars - Reinforcing 1,577,463 851,077 2,136,049 956,278 Bars - Cold Finished 264,253 688,443 308,638 591,144 Tool Steel 114,491 315,220 133,409 331,634 Standard Pipe 1,150,728 918,593 1,268,320 937,221 Oil Country Goods 1,494,343 1,910,700 1,582,345 1,995,502 Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete 1,449,992 1,872,082 658,364 701,862 Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet 386,937 417,064 403,826 414,617 Line Pipe - Not Specified 400,429 295,093 361,164 272,078 Mechanical Tubing 555,245 695,390 630,746 730,279 Pressure Tubing 92,872 221,941 86,492 172,911 Stainless Pipe & Tubing 136,555 1,018,231 112,707 641,419 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 17,492 46,965 14,611 43,696 Structural Pipe & Tube 544,385 483,385 529,783 451,450 Pipe For Piling 34,108 24,926 19,278 15,059 Wire Drawn 625,674 843,080 707,485 834,308 Black Plate 41,780 28,994 66,658 45,941 Tin Plate 402,953 314,254 387,740 290,960 Tin Free Steel 94,705 81,299 94,285 79,981 Sheets Hot Rolled 2,018,288 1,210,329 4,000,604 2,148,239 Sheets Cold Rolled 1,428,437 1,977,422 2,807,878 2,426,802 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 1,636,574 1,373,015 2,850,431 2,124,297 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 156,561 150,823 151,482 124,458 Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat 501,904 475,216 543,961 474,730 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 83,957 149,815 62,871 101,716 Strip - Hot Rolled 72,357 59,104 64,886 52,560 Strip - Cold Rolled 149,990 375,129 147,944 317,807 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)