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 February 2010 February 2009 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 431,465 559,962 580,875 1,052,369 Ingots And Steel For Castings 1,833 1,017 2,187 8,088 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 34,125 24,599 3,964 12,559 Wire Rods 11,380 8,503 5,763 4,186 Structural Shapes Heavy 5,374 4,957 16,022 14,582 Plates Cut Lengths 27,937 39,132 49,865 108,026 Plates In Coils 4,860 4,730 16,717 15,159 Rails Standard 2,553 2,177 1,477 1,746 Bars - Hot Rolled 72,830 71,763 111,683 122,923 Bars - Light Shaped 4,263 2,884 1,398 1,201 Bars - Cold Finished 3,189 7,098 21,271 43,933 Tool Steel 12,230 31,269 15,424 50,059 Standard Pipe 778 2,520 4,165 15,825 Oil Country Goods 63,400 115,707 161,607 348,543 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 51,970 64,273 10,346 20,643 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 308 921 399 609 Line Pipe - Not Specified 4,659 4,620 1,219 2,813 Mechanical Tubing 5,644 14,428 26,545 72,235 Pressure Tubing 1,444 6,588 4,190 27,632 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 366 1,618 591 2,922 Structural Pipe & Tube 2,441 6,770 8,311 14,666 Pipe For Piling 206 226 53 1,583 Wire Drawn 12,002 19,613 7,637 16,026 Sheets Hot Rolled 14,293 14,250 24,743 29,998 Sheets Cold Rolled 33,074 36,301 29,959 36,456 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 31,558 28,860 26,585 27,863 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 8,650 9,111 5,548 7,812 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 13,317 24,124 18,767 32,676 Strip - Hot Rolled 2,796 2,505 521 1,042 Strip - Cold Rolled 3,986 9,400 3,918 10,566 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 March 2010 (CB-10-56)