Exhibit 2: U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: (Census Basis) Not Seasonally Adjusted Quantity in metric tons/ value in thousands of dollars. Details may not equal totals due to rounding August 2008 August 2007 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 19,401,759 22,660,996 21,550,718 20,383,560 Ingots And Steel For Castings 16,436 60,458 25,107 73,166 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 4,018,141 3,235,966 4,238,835 2,514,993 Wire Rods 724,666 637,246 1,100,433 670,495 Structural Shapes Heavy 523,378 503,764 568,636 437,694 Steel Piling 63,431 86,365 75,127 80,382 Plates Cut Lengths 726,880 1,164,045 875,816 1,148,719 Plates In Coils 634,919 598,045 671,299 596,756 Rails Standard 155,588 131,236 202,606 146,020 Rails All Other 52,650 40,891 46,272 32,835 Railroad Accessories 5,805 6,099 10,300 8,838 Bars - Hot Rolled 901,838 1,050,684 826,344 793,415 Bars - Light Shaped 118,869 134,177 155,743 119,007 Bars - Reinforcing 758,267 584,306 1,407,390 747,052 Bars - Cold Finished 195,651 572,477 217,948 556,744 Tool Steel 103,647 319,612 93,396 255,210 Standard Pipe 683,350 771,125 947,950 749,793 Oil Country Goods 1,745,987 2,358,127 1,224,159 1,581,511 Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete 1,300,545 1,782,114 1,143,455 1,475,286 Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet 379,608 484,285 313,590 329,453 Line Pipe - Not Specified 295,055 264,898 330,002 244,530 Mechanical Tubing 355,536 582,817 462,998 574,325 Pressure Tubing 84,560 240,525 79,174 185,969 Stainless Pipe & Tubing 85,771 734,551 111,659 815,894 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 10,221 39,974 14,563 36,235 Structural Pipe & Tube 323,729 402,258 450,742 397,240 Pipe For Piling 9,305 8,383 24,677 17,907 Wire Drawn 472,799 751,821 512,191 685,944 Black Plate 17,282 13,116 36,806 25,412 Tin Plate 173,686 155,695 313,514 244,838 Tin Free Steel 73,107 71,067 79,968 68,373 Sheets Hot Rolled 1,773,739 1,374,757 1,655,611 989,660 Sheets Cold Rolled 915,996 1,565,940 1,212,637 1,679,515 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 1,094,374 1,034,790 1,350,288 1,126,343 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 111,652 126,947 121,547 117,272 Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat 279,288 310,336 399,632 377,766 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 71,455 122,407 69,265 126,987 Strip - Hot Rolled 32,536 35,741 60,268 49,291 Strip - Cold Rolled 112,013 303,950 120,767 302,689 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 September 2008 (CB-08-158)