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

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

Total Selected Commodities           334,047     594,214     352,256     502,325

Ingots And Steel For Castings          1,462       5,958         228         793
Blooms, Billets And Slabs              2,742       7,517      30,937      32,340
Wire Rods 	                       1,981       1,426         (-)         (-)
Structural Shapes Heavy                4,812       4,199       7,844       7,394
Plates Cut Lengths                    27,826      56,777      25,681      46,648
Plates In Coils                        9,811       9,424      13,010      10,062
Rails Standard                         1,160       1,465         350         399
Bars - Hot Rolled                     70,214      73,694      60,135      63,863
Bars - Light Shaped                      473         423         469         487
Bars - Cold Finished                  10,202      24,141       8,191      15,839
Tool Steel                             8,387      26,781      15,537      40,658
Standard Pipe                          3,499      13,275       1,143       3,413
Oil Country Goods                     92,929     190,692      48,375      74,479
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete       5,883      10,016      53,412      77,027
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet         328         489       1,347       4,753
Line Pipe - Not Specified              1,219       2,813          65         103
Mechanical Tubing                     17,839      46,960      10,869      26,044
Pressure Tubing                        1,795      13,214       2,918      10,900
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified              300       1,544         280       1,177
Structural Pipe & Tube                 4,975       9,329       3,005       5,651
Pipe For Piling                           47       1,573          66          62
Wire Drawn                             4,707       9,823       7,574      11,541
Sheets Hot Rolled                     14,362      19,012      12,056      11,094
Sheets Cold Rolled                    19,355      23,036      13,074      12,798
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        13,676      14,391      14,377      13,129
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt         3,824       5,206       6,713       7,501
Sheets & Strip - Electrical            7,748      14,475      11,600      16,721
Strip - Hot Rolled                       272         493         262         780
Strip - Cold Rolled                    2,218       6,069       2,737       6,669
                                           

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
February 2009 (CB-09-46)