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 February 2008 February 2007 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 687,397 998,244 661,847 843,526 Ingots And Steel For Castings 390 933 2,400 3,938 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 86,366 90,082 116,793 86,026 Structural Shapes Heavy 14,171 13,190 13,121 10,101 Plates Cut Lengths 54,573 105,779 40,257 66,429 Plates In Coils 17,914 13,679 17,252 11,288 Rails Standard 2,911 2,785 1,268 886 Bars - Hot Rolled 110,008 114,144 98,791 94,533 Bars - Light Shaped 1,185 1,078 922 650 Bars - Cold Finished 13,144 26,252 18,025 35,307 Tool Steel 28,066 76,337 21,623 60,998 Standard Pipe 1,793 5,423 2,762 7,538 Oil Country Goods 79,828 125,654 90,475 157,522 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 108,381 158,163 39,909 61,244 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 3,911 9,998 363 435 Line Pipe - Not Specified 109 150 175 202 Mechanical Tubing 18,603 43,602 22,756 41,872 Pressure Tubing 10,538 42,047 3,913 15,747 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 877 3,811 508 2,196 Structural Pipe & Tube 5,983 9,954 5,234 9,654 Pipe For Piling 66 62 938 846 Wire Drawn 15,147 23,186 13,017 19,496 Sheets Hot Rolled 19,483 18,167 40,079 33,238 Sheets Cold Rolled 21,891 22,165 42,228 40,945 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 36,915 33,687 34,646 27,445 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 11,601 13,059 11,902 12,326 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 16,876 29,575 16,086 29,944 Strip - Hot Rolled 567 1,248 648 378 Strip - Cold Rolled 6,099 14,033 5,758 12,343 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 March 2008 (CB-08-62)