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 April 2008 April 2007 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 1,466,360 2,160,347 1,453,660 1,866,927 Ingots And Steel For Castings 1,106 2,102 3,808 6,870 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 151,794 161,185 242,643 178,190 Structural Shapes Heavy 26,748 24,847 23,142 18,691 Plates Cut Lengths 137,761 263,336 103,454 160,289 Plates In Coils 50,604 39,638 28,925 19,251 Rails Standard 7,755 7,818 8,454 6,854 Bars - Hot Rolled 221,677 234,835 216,656 206,356 Bars - Light Shaped 2,180 1,902 1,698 1,267 Bars - Cold Finished 31,140 59,452 36,074 66,657 Tool Steel 57,090 164,107 48,727 130,032 Standard Pipe 5,130 14,929 5,699 14,785 Oil Country Goods 187,541 301,195 182,376 328,494 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 238,712 347,379 149,985 209,569 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 6,715 15,775 564 920 Line Pipe - Not Specified 210 300 195 310 Mechanical Tubing 44,479 102,619 46,941 89,074 Pressure Tubing 14,993 64,962 9,396 40,500 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 2,058 9,388 1,324 6,279 Structural Pipe & Tube 11,066 21,740 13,727 22,913 Pipe For Piling 343 318 1,028 923 Wire Drawn 31,689 49,430 28,486 42,594 Sheets Hot Rolled 45,624 40,929 77,107 63,993 Sheets Cold Rolled 43,061 44,904 83,619 79,056 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 71,904 66,312 67,788 53,810 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 24,115 27,964 23,042 25,956 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 37,315 63,304 32,825 63,383 Strip - Hot Rolled 1,600 3,158 1,969 1,167 Strip - Cold Rolled 11,949 26,520 14,008 28,746 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 May 2008 (CB-08-94)