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

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

Total Selected Commodities         4,134,021   6,484,940   3,306,346   4,660,331

Ingots And Steel For Castings         19,690      19,047      12,577       9,143
Blooms, Billets And Slabs            254,080     273,047     235,475     188,162
Wire Rods                             67,213      61,791      66,410      54,759
Structural Shapes Heavy               85,826      90,812      73,797      65,258
Plates Cut Lengths                   279,739     418,464     214,653     316,651
Plates In Coils                      207,725     199,882     130,619     116,118
Rails Standard                        24,670      28,162      20,071      21,245
Bars - Hot Rolled                    742,562     957,578     504,889     557,954
Bars - Light Shaped                   24,430      22,715      24,702      19,489
Bars - Cold Finished                  98,458     223,156      45,767      97,520
Tool Steel                           155,740     470,042     122,416     339,499
Standard Pipe                         44,081      94,081      20,602      43,192
Oil Country Goods                    834,726   1,534,297     702,872   1,258,576
Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete     239,665     322,792     147,864     186,735
Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet       8,486      18,468       3,356       8,900
Line Pipe - Not Specified             18,410      23,831       7,093       6,868
Mechanical Tubing                    180,955     424,841      93,999     198,140
Pressure Tubing                       29,183      85,398      22,690      63,503
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified            5,196      23,905       3,529      16,173
Structural Pipe & Tube                21,579      66,683      28,639      64,629
Pipe For Piling                          480         514       3,438       3,890
Wire Drawn                            94,783     177,015      90,722     152,920
Sheets Hot Rolled                    153,521     188,616     124,767     129,695
Sheets Cold Rolled                   185,498     218,968     185,573     201,555
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped       180,075     189,147     241,768     216,763
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        40,522      51,278      52,550      59,710
Sheets & Strip - Electrical          103,131     198,432      85,545     174,313
Strip - Hot Rolled                     2,305      12,226       6,221       9,856
Strip - Cold Rolled                   31,290      89,749      33,741      79,115
                                            

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
January 2012 (CB-12-32)