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 2011            January 2010
                                Cumulative to           Cumulative to
                                Date - Final            Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities           315,566     467,970     212,206     276,014

Ingots And Steel For Castings            507         448       1,144         641
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             19,042      20,101      18,936      13,157
Wire Rods                              4,902       4,069       5,347       4,033
Structural Shapes Heavy                5,225       5,615       2,214       2,027
Plates Cut Lengths                    21,396      31,100      14,665      19,808
Plates In Coils                       25,921      21,127       1,884       2,093
Rails Standard                           222         305         286         285
Bars - Hot Rolled                     56,763      66,236      40,235      38,196
Bars - Light Shaped                    1,253       1,038       2,059       1,315
Bars - Cold Finished                   5,532      12,271       1,815       3,739
Tool Steel                            15,947      39,591       4,774      13,335
Standard Pipe                          6,577      11,112         410       1,000
Oil Country Goods                     62,343     110,998      30,698      59,277
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete      11,807      17,747      21,941      28,016
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet          78         210         278         628
Line Pipe - Not Specified                 21          14           0           0
Mechanical Tubing                     13,116      28,304       3,623       8,728
Pressure Tubing                        2,030       5,321       1,317       3,932
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified              420       1,935         220         901
Structural Pipe & Tube                 1,577       5,011       1,717       4,154
Pipe For Piling                           30          31         132         156
Wire Drawn                             7,346      12,917       6,341       9,860
Sheets Hot Rolled                      5,895       7,289       6,213       6,305
Sheets Cold Rolled                    14,562      14,766      14,904      16,325
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        15,056      15,315      15,860      14,538
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt         4,548       5,607       4,254       4,282
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           10,332      19,955       7,591      13,609
Strip - Hot Rolled                       178       1,381       1,356         901
Strip - Cold Rolled                    2,939       8,153       1,991       4,774
                                            

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
February 2011 (CB-11-50)