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

                                January 2010            January 2009
                                Cumulative to           Cumulative to
                                Date - Final            Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities           212,206     276,014     334,047     594,214

Ingots And Steel For Castings          1,144         641       1,462       5,958
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             18,936      13,157       2,742       7,517
Wire Rods                              5,347       4,033       1,981       1,426
Structural Shapes Heavy                2,214       2,027       4,812       4,199
Plates Cut Lengths                    14,665      19,808      27,826      56,777
Plates In Coils                        1,884       2,093       9,811       9,424
Rails Standard                           286         285       1,160       1,465
Bars - Hot Rolled                     40,235      38,196      70,214      73,694
Bars - Light Shaped                    2,059       1,315         473         423
Bars - Cold Finished                   1,815       3,739      10,202      24,141
Tool Steel                             4,774      13,335       8,387      26,781
Standard Pipe                            410       1,000       3,499      13,275
Oil Country Goods                     30,698      59,277      92,929     190,692
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete      21,941      28,016       5,883      10,016
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet         278         628         328         489
Line Pipe - Not Specified                (-)         (-)       1,219       2,813
Mechanical Tubing                      3,623       8,728      17,839      46,960
Pressure Tubing                        1,317       3,932       1,795      13,214
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified              220         901         300       1,544
Structural Pipe & Tube                 1,717       4,154       4,975       9,329
Pipe For Piling                          132         156          47       1,573
Wire Drawn                             6,341       9,860       4,707       9,823
Sheets Hot Rolled                      6,213       6,305      14,362      19,012
Sheets Cold Rolled                    14,904      16,325      19,355      23,036
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        15,860      14,538      13,676      14,391
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt         4,254       4,282       3,824       5,206
Sheets & Strip - Electrical            7,591      13,609       7,748      14,475
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,356         901         272         493
Strip - Cold Rolled                    1,991       4,774       2,218       6,069
                                           

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
February 2010 (CB-10-35)