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

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

Total Selected Commodities         1,938,987   3,254,009   3,793,311   5,971,974

Ingots And Steel For Castings          6,777      20,246       3,033       6,057
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             35,968      49,013     357,344     438,283
Wire Rods 	                           39,872      26,638         (-)         (-)
Structural Shapes Heavy               30,869      27,651      65,414      68,484
Plates Cut Lengths                   161,899     302,708     340,186     680,320
Plates In Coils                       50,295      42,939     124,644     116,850
Rails Standard                        13,248      11,797      20,982      17,431
Bars - Hot Rolled                    284,889     305,862     724,604     818,517
Bars - Light Shaped                   10,431       7,407       6,278       6,537
Bars - Cold Finished                  39,483      86,989      72,638     153,135
Tool Steel                            42,296     131,771     126,392     394,458
Standard Pipe                         13,751      47,243      17,356      54,989
Oil Country Goods                    371,222     829,747     608,533   1,119,616
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete     259,849     369,068     427,892     657,925
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet      12,217      33,862      15,274      30,386
Line Pipe - Not Specified              2,143       4,043         404         722
Mechanical Tubing                     71,088     206,760     124,191     291,688
Pressure Tubing                       14,459      93,209      29,204     138,608
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified            5,233      27,727       4,747      22,838
Structural Pipe & Tube                16,881      41,184      33,509      68,868
Pipe For Piling                        4,229       7,790         603         629
Wire Drawn                            36,954      67,514      74,797     135,625
Sheets Hot Rolled                     93,532      97,847     131,169     137,243
Sheets Cold Rolled                   103,604     122,133     121,231     134,026
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped       118,881     118,459     186,583     175,040
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        20,956      29,284      53,554      69,738
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           51,747      93,821      90,411     158,931
Strip - Hot Rolled                     6,419       7,324       3,869       8,023
Strip - Cold Rolled                   19,794      43,974      28,469      67,006
                                           

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 Janet Freas
(301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau.

SOURCE:  U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary
November 2009 (CB-09-193)