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

Total Selected Commodities           918,694   1,384,065     705,990     927,719

Ingots And Steel For Castings          3,677       3,339       2,520       1,653
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             66,953      69,699      54,457      40,375
Wire Rods                             15,023      12,443      18,478      13,932
Structural Shapes Heavy               17,196      18,215      11,315       9,968
Plates Cut Lengths                    67,461      99,684      41,691      61,431
Plates In Coils                       48,687      41,993       6,910       6,786
Rails Standard                         6,258       6,902       4,135       3,799
Bars - Hot Rolled                    161,468     195,466     112,325     111,592
Bars - Light Shaped                    4,322       3,682       6,887       4,839
Bars - Cold Finished                  20,792      46,460       6,196      13,035
Tool Steel                            39,698     112,249      21,074      54,026
Standard Pipe                         10,636      20,686       1,555       4,453
Oil Country Goods                    188,483     335,836     117,951     210,642
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete      25,333      34,664      86,752     105,431
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet       1,402       2,581         385       1,327
Line Pipe - Not Specified              3,130       2,960       4,770       4,846
Mechanical Tubing                     38,654      82,511       9,052      22,984
Pressure Tubing                        6,735      17,576       2,707      10,962
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified            1,104       4,430         725       3,131
Structural Pipe & Tube                 4,339      13,482       4,310      11,959
Pipe For Piling                           65          65         219         238
Wire Drawn                            20,111      36,262      19,391      32,825
Sheets Hot Rolled                     27,181      32,304      22,742      22,797
Sheets Cold Rolled                    44,542      48,322      47,433      52,459
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        45,537      45,986      58,299      52,304
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        14,037      17,825      13,486      15,084
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           27,080      53,703      18,510      35,001
Strip - Hot Rolled                       526       3,366       4,016       3,709
Strip - Cold Rolled                    8,264      21,372       7,701      16,131
                                            

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)