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

                                December 2009           December 2008
                                Cumulative to           Cumulative to
                                Date - Final            Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities         4,477,126   7,269,991   4,350,176   5,682,091

Ingots And Steel For Castings          4,960      12,527      12,924      19,988
Blooms, Billets And Slabs            378,706     473,840     625,552     483,496
Wire Rods 	                         (-)         (-)         (-)         (-)
Structural Shapes Heavy               76,696      79,787      76,881      65,664
Plates Cut Lengths                   401,173     809,910     372,662     583,594
Plates In Coils                      145,737     142,188     117,280      81,164
Rails Standard                        22,953      19,209      37,101      27,948
Bars - Hot Rolled                    857,019     987,119     627,878     606,832
Bars - Light Shaped                    6,973       7,327       6,708       5,979
Bars - Cold Finished                  85,389     185,268      91,633     174,777
Tool Steel                           147,548     464,076     145,435     396,954
Standard Pipe                         24,309      76,534      19,935      55,031
Oil Country Goods                    807,344   1,567,134     504,273     822,621
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete     445,392     684,153     569,657     796,944
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet      17,088      33,558       9,807      20,191
Line Pipe - Not Specified              2,042       4,461       3,211       2,844
Mechanical Tubing                    159,581     378,674     133,057     278,380
Pressure Tubing                       34,044     161,540      31,013     126,181
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified            5,873      29,171       4,407      23,526
Structural Pipe & Tube                36,654      76,480      34,343      70,822
Pipe For Piling                          612         637       1,825       1,670
Wire Drawn                            84,954     158,290      88,929     133,982
Sheets Hot Rolled                    162,018     176,516     229,922     199,996
Sheets Cold Rolled                   148,100     169,459     221,756     205,466
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped       212,378     199,926     166,451     145,392
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        60,818      80,606      71,418      76,954
Sheets & Strip - Electrical          109,658     199,432     100,328     182,615
Strip - Hot Rolled                     4,574       9,925       3,878       2,945
Strip - Cold Rolled                   34,533      82,246      41,916      90,134
                                            

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
January 2009 (CB-09-26)