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

                                October 2008            October 2007
                                Cumulative to           Cumulative to
                                Date - Final            Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities         3,793,311   5,971,974   3,609,426   4,682,419

Ingots And Steel For Castings          3,033       6,057      11,824      18,233
Blooms, Billets And Slabs            357,344     438,283     494,207     374,937
Structural Shapes Heavy               65,414      68,484      62,227      52,012
Plates Cut Lengths                   340,186     680,320     314,301     491,794
Plates In Coils                      124,644     116,850      96,477      66,815
Rails Standard                        20,982      17,431      33,497      24,582
Bars - Hot Rolled                    724,604     818,517     535,623     513,005
Bars - Light Shaped                    6,278       6,537       5,919       5,314
Bars - Cold Finished                  72,638     153,135      77,023     145,937
Tool Steel                           126,392     394,458     114,491     315,220
Standard Pipe                         17,356      54,989      16,085      44,809
Oil Country Goods                    608,533   1,119,616     429,162     704,967
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete     427,892     657,925     443,703     616,684
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet      15,274      30,386       6,994      13,397
Line Pipe - Not Specified                404         722       3,185       2,810
Mechanical Tubing                    124,191     291,688     113,064     233,246
Pressure Tubing                       29,204     138,608      25,393     100,926
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified            4,747      22,838       3,651      19,600
Structural Pipe & Tube                33,509      68,868      29,937      60,012
Pipe For Piling                          603         629       1,791       1,637
Wire Drawn                            74,797     135,625      73,697     111,080
Sheets Hot Rolled                    131,169     137,243     203,543     174,270
Sheets Cold Rolled                   121,231     134,026     188,592     176,136
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped       186,583     175,040     139,919     120,032
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        53,554      69,738      64,352      69,131
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           90,411     158,931      83,957     149,815
Strip - Hot Rolled                     3,869       8,023       3,521       2,629
Strip - Cold Rolled                   28,469      67,006      33,292      73,388
                                           

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
November 2008 (CB-08-186)