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

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

Total Selected Commodities           809,637   1,477,389   1,070,637   1,571,558

Ingots And Steel For Castings          3,087      11,244         702       1,510
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             11,522      23,118     124,741     129,516
Wire Rods 	                       8,451       6,171         (-)         (-)
Structural Shapes Heavy               19,903      17,776      15,639      14,482
Plates Cut Lengths                    67,349     149,637     103,782     196,418
Plates In Coils                       20,029      18,091      27,027      21,350
Rails Standard                         3,241       3,424       6,068       6,163
Bars - Hot Rolled                    133,944     150,679     166,002     175,077
Bars - Light Shaped                    1,683       1,421       1,672       1,480
Bars - Cold Finished                  25,980      56,717      18,935      38,725
Tool Steel                            21,192      68,509      42,064     120,207
Standard Pipe                          7,088      23,531       4,448      12,754
Oil Country Goods                    230,126     492,896     142,175     222,857
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete      22,089      43,153     165,067     237,646
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet       2,716       8,592       6,019      14,188
Line Pipe - Not Specified              1,262       2,893         122         179
Mechanical Tubing                     36,932     101,639      31,410      72,932
Pressure Tubing                        6,080      40,250      12,337      51,490
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified              788       3,640       1,459       6,692
Structural Pipe & Tube                 9,638      17,226       8,406      15,506
Pipe For Piling                           56       1,585          85          80
Wire Drawn                            11,461      22,842      23,065      36,122
Sheets Hot Rolled                     42,626      46,666      27,824      26,118
Sheets Cold Rolled                    42,826      51,478      33,842      34,555
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        38,572      40,877      52,484      48,157
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt         8,083      11,762      17,507      19,166
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           26,764      45,466      27,803      46,869
Strip - Hot Rolled                       734       1,804         872       1,841
Strip - Cold Rolled                    5,414      14,301       9,079      19,478
                                           

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
April 2009 (CB-09-78)