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 September 2008 September 2007 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 3,334,220 5,173,776 3,237,659 4,203,100 Ingots And Steel For Castings 2,457 4,628 11,669 17,998 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 304,341 366,464 400,791 302,754 Structural Shapes Heavy 57,150 59,027 54,843 45,194 Plates Cut Lengths 310,990 609,953 281,379 426,822 Plates In Coils 98,840 90,490 88,223 61,014 Rails Standard 18,387 15,167 27,160 20,662 Bars - Hot Rolled 613,866 682,857 484,873 463,103 Bars - Light Shaped 5,794 5,970 5,139 4,725 Bars - Cold Finished 61,099 127,979 69,515 131,141 Tool Steel 115,416 356,325 102,775 282,033 Standard Pipe 15,220 45,102 14,080 39,226 Oil Country Goods 515,035 905,523 401,155 655,938 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 410,625 629,176 404,632 560,948 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 14,546 28,988 6,417 12,277 Line Pipe - Not Specified 404 722 3,185 2,810 Mechanical Tubing 107,089 251,366 105,437 214,179 Pressure Tubing 26,690 126,199 23,617 93,311 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 4,194 20,686 3,122 16,534 Structural Pipe & Tube 29,092 59,697 26,603 53,603 Pipe For Piling 591 617 1,682 1,535 Wire Drawn 68,008 120,479 66,690 99,926 Sheets Hot Rolled 116,826 119,122 186,945 160,090 Sheets Cold Rolled 109,216 118,763 175,733 164,539 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 170,178 159,448 127,033 107,711 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 48,550 62,166 57,634 61,577 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 80,410 139,681 75,256 137,278 Strip - Hot Rolled 3,595 7,279 3,186 2,413 Strip - Cold Rolled 25,609 59,902 28,884 63,758 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 October 2008 (CB-08-169)