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 August 2011 August 2010 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 2,730,673 4,211,530 2,188,904 3,022,427 Ingots And Steel For Castings 13,463 13,432 8,230 6,134 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 173,256 188,609 152,627 124,720 Wire Rods 45,456 41,002 46,896 38,359 Structural Shapes Heavy 57,677 60,073 50,576 44,448 Plates Cut Lengths 192,842 285,939 141,400 207,054 Plates In Coils 124,416 121,543 40,556 37,826 Rails Standard 18,972 21,951 13,668 14,329 Bars - Hot Rolled 497,807 627,226 328,615 351,141 Bars - Light Shaped 14,101 12,697 18,250 13,808 Bars - Cold Finished 63,425 142,866 24,905 54,388 Tool Steel 105,809 313,437 73,822 198,634 Standard Pipe 33,574 70,151 8,282 18,904 Oil Country Goods 531,927 961,628 482,731 850,278 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 171,126 223,173 132,042 163,546 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 4,762 9,383 1,841 5,122 Line Pipe - Not Specified 15,368 20,161 6,657 6,428 Mechanical Tubing 106,926 246,781 46,965 102,537 Pressure Tubing 18,371 50,113 13,154 39,012 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 3,566 15,551 2,446 11,354 Structural Pipe & Tube 13,098 41,735 17,391 40,169 Pipe For Piling 287 300 2,847 3,180 Wire Drawn 62,855 117,030 59,792 100,178 Sheets Hot Rolled 99,271 123,274 80,942 82,326 Sheets Cold Rolled 126,396 144,943 129,909 140,551 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 113,349 116,545 185,064 163,872 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 33,687 41,977 36,458 41,214 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 67,083 134,316 55,244 108,719 Strip - Hot Rolled 1,532 8,416 5,169 7,343 Strip - Cold Rolled 20,271 57,279 22,428 46,850 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 Freas (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau. SOURCE: U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary August 2011 (CB-11-162)