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

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

Total Selected Commodities           580,875   1,052,369     687,397     998,244

Ingots And Steel For Castings          2,187       8,088         390         933
Blooms, Billets And Slabs              3,964      12,559      86,366      90,082
Wire Rods 	                       5,763       4,186         (-)         (-)
Structural Shapes Heavy               16,022      14,582      14,171      13,190
Plates Cut Lengths                    49,865     108,026      54,573     105,779
Plates In Coils                       16,717      15,159      17,914      13,679
Rails Standard                         1,477       1,746       2,911       2,785
Bars - Hot Rolled                    111,683     122,923     110,008     114,144
Bars - Light Shaped                    1,398       1,201       1,185       1,078
Bars - Cold Finished                  21,271      43,933      13,144      26,252
Tool Steel                            15,424      50,059      28,066      76,337
Standard Pipe                          4,165      15,825       1,793       5,423
Oil Country Goods                    161,607     348,543      79,828     125,654
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete      10,346      20,643     108,381     158,163
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet         399         609       3,911       9,998
Line Pipe - Not Specified              1,219       2,813         109         150
Mechanical Tubing                     26,545      72,235      18,603      43,602
Pressure Tubing                        4,190      27,632      10,538      42,047
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified              591       2,922         877       3,811
Structural Pipe & Tube                 8,311      14,666       5,983       9,954
Pipe For Piling                           53       1,583          66          62
Wire Drawn                             7,637      16,026      15,147      23,186
Sheets Hot Rolled                     24,743      29,998      19,483      18,167
Sheets Cold Rolled                    29,959      36,456      21,891      22,165
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        26,585      27,863      36,915      33,687
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt         5,548       7,812      11,601      13,059
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           18,767      32,676      16,876      29,575
Strip - Hot Rolled                       521       1,042         567       1,248
Strip - Cold Rolled                    3,918      10,566       6,099      14,033
                                           

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
March 2009 (CB-09-63)