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

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

Total Selected Commodities         3,065,708   4,728,711   2,474,014   3,429,127

Ingots And Steel For Castings         15,267      14,874       9,194       6,754
Blooms, Billets And Slabs            188,165     205,930     185,199     146,953
Wire Rods                             52,509      47,801      51,511      42,293
Structural Shapes Heavy               63,577      66,845      57,533      50,883
Plates Cut Lengths                   215,494     318,044     155,988     227,534
Plates In Coils                      146,342     143,080      61,059      55,990
Rails Standard                        21,257      24,510      17,068      17,950
Bars - Hot Rolled                    557,077     704,861     372,366     402,069
Bars - Light Shaped                   15,915      14,417      20,439      16,156
Bars - Cold Finished                  73,344     164,287      29,253      63,819
Tool Steel                           116,052     345,510      85,080     230,195
Standard Pipe                         35,711      74,828       9,368      21,902
Oil Country Goods                    596,530   1,076,006     540,587     962,507
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete     197,448     259,089     134,822     169,547
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet       5,437      10,986       2,190       6,583
Line Pipe - Not Specified             15,905      20,789       6,693       6,487
Mechanical Tubing                    123,090     282,742      54,680     119,551
Pressure Tubing                       19,639      53,408      14,767      42,982
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified            4,071      18,081       2,678      12,232
Structural Pipe & Tube                15,912      49,657      22,325      48,639
Pipe For Piling                          323         341       3,352       3,806
Wire Drawn                            70,099     130,839      67,098     112,542
Sheets Hot Rolled                    110,707     136,977      92,083      95,197
Sheets Cold Rolled                   138,527     160,512     143,834     155,739
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped       130,379     134,011     199,701     177,531
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        35,615      44,653      40,765      46,227
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           76,652     149,371      63,821     125,081
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,739       9,865       5,296       7,550
Strip - Cold Rolled                   22,927      66,397      25,263      54,427
                                           

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
October 2011 (CB-11-195)