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 2012 March 2011 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 1,126,830 1,854,916 918,694 1,384,065 Ingots And Steel For Castings 3,118 3,171 3,677 3,339 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 70,600 62,926 66,953 69,699 Wire Rods 24,262 22,677 15,023 12,443 Structural Shapes Heavy 22,413 24,359 17,196 18,215 Plates Cut Lengths 65,515 101,389 67,461 99,684 Plates In Coils 21,285 21,577 48,687 41,993 Rails Standard 7,297 8,078 6,258 6,902 Bars - Hot Rolled 202,572 273,672 161,468 195,466 Bars - Light Shaped 9,443 9,331 4,322 3,682 Bars - Cold Finished 31,082 71,903 20,792 46,460 Tool Steel 43,571 131,150 39,698 112,249 Standard Pipe 10,432 23,566 10,636 20,686 Oil Country Goods 261,516 496,295 188,483 335,836 Line Pipe > 16 inches in diamete 49,208 83,793 25,333 34,664 Line Pipe <= 16 inches in diamet 2,302 6,106 1,402 2,581 Line Pipe - Not Specified 181 184 3,130 2,960 Mechanical Tubing 57,684 146,837 38,654 82,511 Pressure Tubing 10,357 28,966 6,735 17,576 Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified 1,547 7,100 1,104 4,430 Structural Pipe & Tube 7,465 19,830 4,339 13,482 Pipe For Piling 135 144 65 65 Wire Drawn 31,432 56,447 20,111 36,262 Sheets Hot Rolled 41,459 48,132 27,181 32,304 Sheets Cold Rolled 53,619 62,828 44,542 48,322 Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped 52,420 60,812 45,537 45,986 Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt 9,090 11,171 14,037 17,825 Sheets & Strip - Electrical 28,893 51,551 27,080 53,703 Strip - Hot Rolled 494 1,895 526 3,366 Strip - Cold Rolled 7,440 19,030 8,264 21,372 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 April 2012 (CB-12-91)