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 November 2008 November 2007 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 4,172,982 6,665,819 4,001,466 5,209,629 Ingots And Steel For Castings 3,865 8,884 12,908 19,945 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 374,404 462,222 541,347 416,072 Structural Shapes Heavy 72,790 76,085 73,244 62,289 Plates Cut Lengths 373,259 749,395 348,943 542,330 Plates In Coils 139,528 135,415 110,387 76,511 Rails Standard 22,493 18,671 34,768 25,705 Bars - Hot Rolled 806,577 924,987 582,671 560,511 Bars - Light Shaped 6,534 6,890 6,461 5,706 Bars - Cold Finished 78,588 168,992 85,131 160,773 Tool Steel 136,812 429,047 131,509 358,279 Standard Pipe 20,258 64,423 17,015 47,062 Oil Country Goods 709,491 1,342,047 472,710 772,733 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 440,543 678,830 518,199 721,929 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 15,965 31,707 7,068 13,749 Line Pipe - Not Specified 404 725 3,190 2,813 Mechanical Tubing 138,196 326,971 123,681 255,425 Pressure Tubing 32,040 152,689 28,387 111,578 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 5,359 25,702 4,111 22,334 Structural Pipe & Tube 35,543 73,667 32,483 65,820 Pipe For Piling 612 637 1,799 1,645 Wire Drawn 79,950 147,156 81,644 123,337 Sheets Hot Rolled 150,136 161,156 218,638 189,674 Sheets Cold Rolled 138,023 154,622 210,314 194,237 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 198,889 186,596 153,396 132,997 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 57,168 75,435 67,397 72,928 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 100,585 180,112 93,826 169,664 Strip - Hot Rolled 4,156 8,977 3,760 2,821 Strip - Cold Rolled 30,814 73,780 36,479 80,759 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 December 2008 (CB-09-14)