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

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

Total Selected Commodities         1,268,078   1,908,401     987,345   1,305,608

Ingots And Steel For Castings          6,451       6,273       4,071       3,046
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             75,779      79,797      67,700      49,621
Wire Rods                             20,669      17,441      23,481      18,163
Structural Shapes Heavy               22,228      23,322      18,359      15,669
Plates Cut Lengths                    92,253     136,550      62,932      89,300
Plates In Coils                       58,105      52,475      14,986      13,683
Rails Standard                        10,088      11,322       5,578       5,406
Bars - Hot Rolled                    230,078     278,038     148,989     151,012
Bars - Light Shaped                    5,340       4,621       9,328       6,743
Bars - Cold Finished                  27,745      63,331       8,933      18,916
Tool Steel                            50,519     148,301      29,457      76,403
Standard Pipe                         17,542      37,518       2,109       6,289
Oil Country Goods                    242,443     428,006     177,868     312,857
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete      75,715      97,775     115,280     141,448
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet       3,932       7,600       1,030       2,952
Line Pipe - Not Specified              3,373       3,375       4,806       4,934
Mechanical Tubing                     49,056     107,044      13,232      32,613
Pressure Tubing                        8,167      22,301       4,875      18,096
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified            1,549       6,259       1,162       5,221
Structural Pipe & Tube                 6,157      18,563       6,306      17,187
Pipe For Piling                          115         113         219         238
Wire Drawn                            28,493      51,448      26,094      44,195
Sheets Hot Rolled                     44,860      53,585      36,203      35,693
Sheets Cold Rolled                    63,671      68,241      63,544      68,610
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped        60,793      61,424      83,220      74,942
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        17,464      21,906      14,858      17,069
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           35,031      70,229      27,506      48,920
Strip - Hot Rolled                       646       4,282       4,631       4,727
Strip - Cold Rolled                    9,816      27,261      10,586      21,655
                                           

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
May 2011 (CB-11-111)