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 May 2008 May 2007 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 1,800,011 2,685,723 1,822,020 2,363,444 Ingots And Steel For Castings 1,353 2,484 7,307 11,598 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 170,746 188,151 249,060 184,006 Structural Shapes Heavy 32,990 30,748 31,503 25,992 Plates Cut Lengths 173,327 332,792 133,899 211,134 Plates In Coils 68,754 56,887 38,842 25,786 Rails Standard 12,642 10,612 10,474 8,419 Bars - Hot Rolled 270,933 290,703 268,870 252,318 Bars - Light Shaped 2,965 2,702 2,127 1,666 Bars - Cold Finished 35,426 68,736 43,646 81,589 Tool Steel 69,845 204,940 61,053 163,521 Standard Pipe 6,850 19,502 7,239 18,561 Oil Country Goods 232,167 381,000 243,503 416,282 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 289,522 424,375 214,128 296,145 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 8,541 18,524 745 1,636 Line Pipe - Not Specified 258 350 195 310 Mechanical Tubing 55,156 128,388 60,768 118,562 Pressure Tubing 17,771 77,796 12,638 53,190 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 2,725 12,529 1,789 8,865 Structural Pipe & Tube 14,822 29,854 16,009 28,263 Pipe For Piling 427 407 1,277 1,141 Wire Drawn 39,592 63,339 35,837 53,432 Sheets Hot Rolled 58,325 53,827 99,854 83,420 Sheets Cold Rolled 57,291 59,002 106,879 100,688 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 90,414 83,403 81,316 65,355 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 28,008 33,253 29,862 32,635 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 42,653 74,566 42,950 80,531 Strip - Hot Rolled 2,033 3,982 2,211 1,322 Strip - Cold Rolled 14,477 32,869 18,041 37,078 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 June 2008 (CB-08-110)