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 December 2007 December 2006 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 30,158,061 28,968,200 41,071,051 31,250,315 Ingots And Steel For Castings 32,778 95,233 40,107 70,084 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 6,005,580 3,582,807 8,414,585 4,176,790 Wire Rods 1,395,476 883,571 2,763,350 1,398,634 Structural Shapes Heavy 771,322 609,653 942,915 616,229 Steel Piling 99,810 107,798 97,145 87,881 Plates Cut Lengths 1,289,799 1,668,595 1,514,668 1,473,089 Plates In Coils 939,237 789,023 1,583,842 1,000,956 Rails Standard 265,991 192,820 271,451 191,376 Rails All Other 90,734 62,039 37,965 29,006 Railroad Accessories 14,154 13,005 10,124 7,969 Bars - Hot Rolled 1,200,156 1,164,275 1,467,992 1,237,934 Bars - Light Shaped 217,013 170,963 284,616 196,582 Bars - Reinforcing 1,688,156 926,167 2,347,290 1,060,694 Bars - Cold Finished 313,405 812,596 376,903 737,215 Tool Steel 145,435 396,954 159,518 404,971 Standard Pipe 1,286,261 1,050,472 1,460,251 1,095,246 Oil Country Goods 1,763,559 2,244,939 1,888,116 2,390,915 Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete 1,803,095 2,346,802 845,129 910,641 Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet 444,646 484,863 487,400 497,120 Line Pipe - Not Specified 465,832 340,769 474,612 351,654 Mechanical Tubing 642,785 820,028 754,241 873,079 Pressure Tubing 109,953 269,470 100,180 205,277 Stainless Pipe & Tubing 157,077 1,181,847 142,012 820,740 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 20,863 55,876 17,246 51,032 Structural Pipe & Tube 613,717 550,871 639,810 547,268 Pipe For Piling 37,274 27,484 35,400 30,404 Wire Drawn 731,698 987,382 819,548 983,846 Black Plate 44,046 30,634 76,215 52,646 Tin Plate 470,962 368,415 494,440 370,797 Tin Free Steel 111,147 96,411 108,604 92,195 Sheets Hot Rolled 2,435,372 1,459,535 4,604,775 2,507,387 Sheets Cold Rolled 1,633,989 2,245,987 3,321,391 2,941,236 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 1,824,013 1,538,542 3,309,204 2,506,247 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 180,901 174,644 175,401 143,240 Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat 549,005 521,428 670,896 597,222 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 100,328 182,615 80,622 140,742 Strip - Hot Rolled 82,249 67,275 75,511 63,827 Strip - Cold Rolled 180,246 446,410 177,575 388,142 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)