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

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

Total Selected Commodities         1,004,146   1,838,273   1,466,360   2,160,347

Ingots And Steel For Castings          4,478      15,855       1,106       2,102
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             18,353      28,404     151,794     161,185
Wire Rods 	                      11,332       8,245         (-)         (-)
Structural Shapes Heavy               22,137      19,592      26,748      24,847
Plates Cut Lengths                    81,076     183,513     137,761     263,336
Plates In Coils                       26,080      24,539      50,604      39,638
Rails Standard                         5,259       5,380       7,755       7,818
Bars - Hot Rolled                    151,488     172,120     221,677     234,835
Bars - Light Shaped                    2,049       1,852       2,180       1,902
Bars - Cold Finished                  30,931      65,970      31,140      59,452
Tool Steel                            24,483      81,122      57,090     164,107
Standard Pipe                          8,992      31,075       5,130      14,929
Oil Country Goods                    265,859     578,875     187,541     301,195
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete      62,132     103,311     238,712     347,379
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet       3,190      10,917       6,715      15,775
Line Pipe - Not Specified              1,262       2,893         210         300
Mechanical Tubing                     46,942     133,432      44,479     102,619
Pressure Tubing                        8,202      51,601      14,993      64,962
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified              924       4,280       2,058       9,388
Structural Pipe & Tube                11,877      27,343      11,066      21,740
Pipe For Piling                           72       1,608         343         318
Wire Drawn                            14,043      27,731      31,689      49,430
Sheets Hot Rolled                     53,629      58,568      45,624      40,929
Sheets Cold Rolled                    51,323      60,094      43,061      44,904
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        48,887      50,456      71,904      66,312
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        10,180      15,541      24,115      27,964
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           30,745      53,481      37,315      63,304
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,513       2,887       1,600       3,158
Strip - Cold Rolled                    6,708      17,588      11,949      26,520
                                          

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
May 2009 (CB-09-94)