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 June 2008 June 2007 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 2,214,635 3,332,247 2,240,740 2,887,451 Ingots And Steel For Castings 1,686 3,093 9,215 14,705 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 222,685 253,272 316,058 231,555 Structural Shapes Heavy 41,680 40,652 37,632 31,301 Plates Cut Lengths 217,381 416,211 175,564 269,830 Plates In Coils 77,749 66,578 50,712 34,058 Rails Standard 13,143 11,147 18,555 13,873 Bars - Hot Rolled 348,061 377,913 322,334 306,825 Bars - Light Shaped 4,004 3,794 3,775 3,637 Bars - Cold Finished 42,905 85,207 51,612 96,859 Tool Steel 81,549 245,886 71,139 192,585 Standard Pipe 9,757 28,529 9,772 26,131 Oil Country Goods 295,316 486,152 280,078 471,833 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 336,169 501,298 269,719 368,348 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 9,440 20,050 5,945 10,565 Line Pipe - Not Specified 395 706 2,296 1,926 Mechanical Tubing 69,143 159,720 75,553 149,686 Pressure Tubing 20,018 88,022 16,322 66,138 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 2,989 14,362 2,173 11,154 Structural Pipe & Tube 18,435 37,405 19,136 34,604 Pipe For Piling 493 483 1,387 1,248 Wire Drawn 46,175 76,289 43,718 64,788 Sheets Hot Rolled 74,523 70,959 124,273 104,490 Sheets Cold Rolled 68,259 71,186 129,967 121,927 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 110,859 102,193 90,659 73,988 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 32,484 39,884 35,297 38,694 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 49,921 87,927 54,453 101,129 Strip - Hot Rolled 2,597 4,998 2,697 1,857 Strip - Cold Rolled 16,819 38,331 20,698 43,717 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 July 2008 (CB-08-127)