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 March 2008 March 2007 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 1,070,637 1,571,558 1,022,932 1,329,184 Ingots And Steel For Castings 702 1,510 3,050 5,156 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 124,741 129,516 143,171 109,068 Structural Shapes Heavy 15,639 14,482 18,827 15,053 Plates Cut Lengths 103,782 196,418 76,185 118,656 Plates In Coils 27,027 21,350 22,763 15,048 Rails Standard 6,068 6,163 6,043 4,563 Bars - Hot Rolled 166,002 175,077 158,576 151,345 Bars - Light Shaped 1,672 1,480 1,199 878 Bars - Cold Finished 18,935 38,725 24,306 49,523 Tool Steel 42,064 120,207 34,654 95,575 Standard Pipe 4,448 12,754 4,399 11,595 Oil Country Goods 142,175 222,857 142,336 245,897 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 165,067 237,646 84,734 121,036 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 6,019 14,188 412 537 Line Pipe - Not Specified 122 179 192 307 Mechanical Tubing 31,410 72,932 35,849 67,161 Pressure Tubing 12,337 51,490 7,016 27,874 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 1,459 6,692 950 3,981 Structural Pipe & Tube 8,406 15,506 9,845 16,397 Pipe For Piling 85 80 971 875 Wire Drawn 23,065 36,122 20,413 30,647 Sheets Hot Rolled 27,824 26,118 57,144 46,909 Sheets Cold Rolled 33,842 34,555 66,355 62,450 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 52,484 48,157 49,208 39,369 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 17,507 19,166 19,178 21,221 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 27,803 46,869 24,733 47,690 Strip - Hot Rolled 872 1,841 1,337 807 Strip - Cold Rolled 9,079 19,478 9,086 19,568 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 April 2008 (CB-08-81)