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

                                January 2008            January 2007
                                Cumulative to           Cumulative to
                                Date - Final            Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities           352,256     502,325     354,018     444,346

Ingots And Steel For Castings            228         793       1,661       2,931
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             30,937      32,340      68,065      50,460
Structural Shapes Heavy                7,844       7,394       4,841       3,421
Plates Cut Lengths                    25,681      46,648      20,209      32,874
Plates In Coils                       13,010      10,062       5,866       4,247
Rails Standard                           350         399       1,155         780
Bars - Hot Rolled                     60,135      63,863      56,120      53,253
Bars - Light Shaped                      469         487         382         286
Bars - Cold Finished                   8,191      15,839       9,405      18,712
Tool Steel                            15,537      40,658      11,086      32,483
Standard Pipe                          1,143       3,413       1,539       3,853
Oil Country Goods                     48,375      74,479      47,016      76,937
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete      53,412      77,027      17,714      27,120
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet       1,347       4,753         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe - Not Specified                 65         103         100         109
Mechanical Tubing                     10,869      26,044      13,547      25,083
Pressure Tubing                        2,918      10,900       2,290      10,175
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified              280       1,177         351       1,336
Structural Pipe & Tube                 3,005       5,651       3,675       6,348
Pipe For Piling                           66          62         884         795
Wire Drawn                             7,574      11,541       7,082      10,582
Sheets Hot Rolled                     12,056      11,094      25,550      21,786
Sheets Cold Rolled                    13,074      12,798      19,848      18,996
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        14,377      13,129      21,275      16,671
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt         6,713       7,501       3,959       4,317
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           11,600      16,721       7,146      13,997
Strip - Hot Rolled                       262         780         449         261
Strip - Cold Rolled                    2,737       6,669       2,801       6,536
                                          

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
February 2008 (CB-08-48)