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

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

Total Selected Commodities         1,318,229   2,364,597   2,214,635   3,332,247

Ingots And Steel For Castings          5,479      19,180       1,686       3,093
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             24,684      35,154     222,685     253,272
Wire Rods 	                      17,583      12,328         (-)         (-)
Structural Shapes Heavy               26,183      23,153      41,680      40,652
Plates Cut Lengths                    99,529     227,584     217,381     416,211
Plates In Coils                       29,693      27,495      77,749      66,578
Rails Standard                         8,501       7,899      13,143      11,147
Bars - Hot Rolled                    185,533     206,797     348,061     377,913
Bars - Light Shaped                    4,979       3,789       4,004       3,794
Bars - Cold Finished                  33,698      73,464      42,905      85,207
Tool Steel                            30,225      98,156      81,549     245,886
Standard Pipe                         10,578      37,418       9,757      28,529
Oil Country Goods                    315,759     696,209     295,316     486,152
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete     145,151     217,777     336,169     501,298
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet       3,532      12,215       9,440      20,050
Line Pipe - Not Specified              1,262       2,893         395         706
Mechanical Tubing                     58,196     167,155      69,143     159,720
Pressure Tubing                       10,555      66,952      20,018      88,022
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified            2,638      11,025       2,989      14,362
Structural Pipe & Tube                13,722      31,778      18,435      37,405
Pipe For Piling                          139       1,682         493         483
Wire Drawn                            20,550      39,231      46,175      76,289
Sheets Hot Rolled                     64,626      70,638      74,523      70,959
Sheets Cold Rolled                    66,411      80,786      68,259      71,186
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        73,008      73,734     110,859     102,193
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        14,107      21,608      32,484      39,884
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           38,607      68,011      49,921      87,927
Strip - Hot Rolled                     2,639       4,383       2,597       4,998
Strip - Cold Rolled                   10,661      26,105      16,819      38,331
                                           

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
July 2009 (CB-09-129)