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

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

Total Selected Commodities           705,990     927,719     809,637   1,477,389

Ingots And Steel For Castings          2,520       1,653       3,087      11,244
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             54,457      40,375      11,522      23,118
Wire Rods                             18,478      13,932       8,451       6,171
Structural Shapes Heavy               11,315       9,968      19,903      17,776
Plates Cut Lengths                    41,691      61,431      67,349     149,637
Plates In Coils                        6,910       6,786      20,029      18,091
Rails Standard                         4,135       3,799       3,241       3,424
Bars - Hot Rolled                    112,325     111,592     133,944     150,679
Bars - Light Shaped                    6,887       4,839       1,683       1,421
Bars - Cold Finished                   6,196      13,035      25,980      56,717
Tool Steel                            21,074      54,026      21,192      68,509
Standard Pipe                          1,555       4,453       7,088      23,531
Oil Country Goods                    117,951     210,642     230,126     492,896
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete      86,752     105,431      22,089      43,153
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet         385       1,327       2,716       8,592
Line Pipe - Not Specified              4,770       4,846       1,262       2,893
Mechanical Tubing                      9,052      22,984      36,932     101,639
Pressure Tubing                        2,707      10,962       6,080      40,250
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified              725       3,131         788       3,640
Structural Pipe & Tube                 4,310      11,959       9,638      17,226
Pipe For Piling                          219         238          56       1,585
Wire Drawn                            19,391      32,825      11,461      22,842
Sheets Hot Rolled                     22,742      22,797      42,626      46,666
Sheets Cold Rolled                    47,433      52,459      42,826      51,478
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        58,299      52,304      38,572      40,877
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        13,486      15,084       8,083      11,762
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           18,510      35,001      26,764      45,466
Strip - Hot Rolled                     4,016       3,709         734       1,804
Strip - Cold Rolled                    7,701      16,131       5,414      14,301
                                            

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
April 2010 (CB-10-70)