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 December 2010 December 2009 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 3,306,346 4,660,331 2,288,572 3,722,909 Ingots And Steel For Castings 12,577 9,143 12,061 23,847 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 235,475 188,162 59,357 67,195 Wire Rods 66,410 54,759 48,646 33,251 Structural Shapes Heavy 73,797 65,258 33,664 29,915 Plates Cut Lengths 214,653 316,651 182,475 335,393 Plates In Coils 130,619 116,118 58,091 48,286 Rails Standard 20,071 21,245 15,363 13,838 Bars - Hot Rolled 504,889 557,954 355,489 376,103 Bars - Light Shaped 24,702 19,489 12,769 9,461 Bars - Cold Finished 45,767 97,520 42,203 93,779 Tool Steel 122,416 339,499 51,592 160,884 Standard Pipe 20,602 43,192 14,817 49,421 Oil Country Goods 702,872 1,258,576 413,624 910,830 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 147,864 186,735 285,261 398,231 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 3,356 8,900 17,355 44,938 Line Pipe - Not Specified 7,093 6,868 2,144 4,063 Mechanical Tubing 93,999 198,140 76,927 222,171 Pressure Tubing 22,690 63,503 17,516 105,218 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 3,529 16,173 5,823 30,571 Structural Pipe & Tube 28,639 64,629 18,857 47,567 Pipe For Piling 3,438 3,890 4,243 7,803 Wire Drawn 90,722 152,920 48,339 86,975 Sheets Hot Rolled 124,767 129,695 107,386 111,612 Sheets Cold Rolled 185,573 201,555 138,669 155,509 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 241,768 216,763 147,155 146,039 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 52,550 59,710 24,602 33,651 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 85,545 174,313 59,523 111,172 Strip - Hot Rolled 6,221 9,856 8,746 9,355 Strip - Cold Rolled 33,741 79,115 25,874 55,832 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.ht ml. CONTACT: For more information, contact Matthew Przybocki (301-763-3148) or Janet Fre as (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau. SOURCE: U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary January 2011 (CB-11-30)