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

Total Selected Commodities           584,290     865,564     431,465     559,962

Ingots And Steel For Castings          2,497       1,956       1,833       1,017
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             41,523      39,987      34,125      24,599
Wire Rods                              9,063       7,574      11,380       8,503
Structural Shapes Heavy               10,501      11,137       5,374       4,957
Plates Cut Lengths                    38,083      55,405      27,937      39,132
Plates In Coils                       39,654      33,095       4,860       4,730
Rails Standard                         3,933       4,333       2,553       2,177
Bars - Hot Rolled                    105,129     124,214      72,830      71,763
Bars - Light Shaped                    2,504       2,134       4,263       2,884
Bars - Cold Finished                  11,371      26,500       3,189       7,098
Tool Steel                            27,531      75,934      12,230      31,269
Standard Pipe                          7,882      14,295         778       2,520
Oil Country Goods                    110,847     197,582      63,400     115,707
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete      20,766      29,257      51,970      64,273
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet         301         549         308         921
Line Pipe - Not Specified              2,052       1,947       4,659       4,620
Mechanical Tubing                     26,668      56,082       5,644      14,428
Pressure Tubing                        4,038      10,747       1,444       6,588
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified              756       3,157         366       1,618
Structural Pipe & Tube                 2,446       7,797       2,441       6,770
Pipe For Piling                           45          47         206         226
Wire Drawn                            13,194      23,368      12,002      19,613
Sheets Hot Rolled                     13,104      15,009      14,293      14,250
Sheets Cold Rolled                    26,286      27,263      33,074      36,301
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        28,724      29,131      31,558      28,860
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        10,855      13,396       8,650       9,111
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           18,665      36,611      13,317      24,124
Strip - Hot Rolled                       288       2,083       2,796       2,505
Strip - Cold Rolled                    5,587      14,973       3,986       9,400
                                            

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
March 2011 (CB-11-68)