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 December 2007 December 2006 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 4,350,176 5,682,091 4,336,006 5,207,879 Ingots And Steel For Castings 12,924 19,988 22,844 25,394 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 625,552 483,496 494,602 328,068 Structural Shapes Heavy 76,881 65,664 115,920 77,589 Plates Cut Lengths 372,662 583,594 368,882 512,937 Plates In Coils 117,280 81,164 139,656 96,291 Rails Standard 37,101 27,948 19,344 13,863 Bars - Hot Rolled 627,878 606,832 751,192 640,445 Bars - Light Shaped 6,708 5,979 22,757 14,072 Bars - Cold Finished 91,633 174,777 119,795 190,098 Tool Steel 145,435 396,954 159,518 404,971 Standard Pipe 19,935 55,031 15,321 38,373 Oil Country Goods 504,273 822,621 534,700 1,001,084 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 569,657 796,944 308,334 373,312 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 9,807 20,191 11,878 27,151 Line Pipe - Not Specified 3,211 2,844 1,881 3,898 Mechanical Tubing 133,057 278,380 131,772 248,489 Pressure Tubing 31,013 126,181 29,139 100,224 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 4,407 23,526 4,744 21,243 Structural Pipe & Tube 34,343 70,822 38,712 63,725 Pipe For Piling 1,825 1,670 1,604 1,498 Wire Drawn 88,929 133,982 98,379 140,489 Sheets Hot Rolled 229,922 199,996 199,283 154,694 Sheets Cold Rolled 221,756 205,466 269,224 227,579 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 166,451 145,392 285,780 211,499 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 71,418 76,954 68,557 59,031 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 100,328 182,615 80,622 140,742 Strip - Hot Rolled 3,878 2,945 6,469 5,305 Strip - Cold Rolled 41,916 90,134 35,097 85,814 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 January 2008 (CB-08-34)