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 November 2007 November 2006 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 4,001,466 5,209,629 3,984,315 4,742,444 Ingots And Steel For Castings 12,908 19,945 22,099 24,547 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 541,347 416,072 456,748 298,878 Structural Shapes Heavy 73,244 62,289 111,335 73,679 Plates Cut Lengths 348,943 542,330 342,058 471,785 Plates In Coils 110,387 76,511 126,786 87,624 Rails Standard 34,768 25,705 18,960 13,539 Bars - Hot Rolled 582,671 560,511 710,546 599,108 Bars - Light Shaped 6,461 5,706 22,009 13,594 Bars - Cold Finished 85,131 160,773 106,897 171,495 Tool Steel 131,509 358,279 147,440 370,772 Standard Pipe 17,015 47,062 13,553 34,350 Oil Country Goods 472,710 772,733 473,032 901,085 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 518,199 721,929 269,648 322,429 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 7,068 13,749 9,547 22,460 Line Pipe - Not Specified 3,190 2,813 1,881 3,898 Mechanical Tubing 123,681 255,425 121,129 226,678 Pressure Tubing 28,387 111,578 27,750 93,547 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 4,111 22,334 4,481 19,988 Structural Pipe & Tube 32,483 65,820 36,520 59,344 Pipe For Piling 1,799 1,645 1,054 1,056 Wire Drawn 81,644 123,337 91,610 130,050 Sheets Hot Rolled 218,638 189,674 183,696 142,389 Sheets Cold Rolled 210,314 194,237 246,064 207,891 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 153,396 132,997 269,068 198,494 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 67,397 72,928 62,693 54,178 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 93,826 169,664 70,523 116,786 Strip - Hot Rolled 3,760 2,821 6,095 5,060 Strip - Cold Rolled 36,479 80,759 31,094 77,738 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 December 2007 (CB-08-15)