Exhibit 2B: U.S. Imports for Consumption of Stainless Steel Products: (Census Basis) Not Seasonally Adjusted Quantity in metric tons/ value in thousands of dollars. Details may not equal totals due to rounding November 2006 November 2005 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 947,496 3,411,679 816,514 2,796,176 Ingots And Steel For Castings 15,000 38,674 14,863 38,770 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 102,432 323,288 118,189 336,906 Wire Rods 23,289 69,411 33,407 93,921 Structural Shapes Heavy 2,428 9,819 1,398 5,796 Plates Cut Lengths 54,093 240,400 39,006 144,805 Plates In Coils 36,414 114,673 30,781 95,080 Bars - Hot Rolled 22,616 103,260 21,099 85,787 Bars - Light Shaped 9,024 29,207 6,501 20,556 Bars - Cold Finished 78,559 322,092 85,807 331,096 Stainless Pipe & Tubing 128,036 732,012 112,825 605,436 Wire Drawn 40,360 187,850 36,805 160,832 Sheets Hot Rolled 27,940 45,636 12,522 24,522 Sheets Cold Rolled 368,711 1,037,713 265,773 703,362 Strip - Hot Rolled 3,088 9,749 3,043 9,006 Strip - Cold Rolled 35,507 147,893 34,495 140,302 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.html. CONTACT: For more information, contact Nick Orsini (301-763-6959) or Janet Freas (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau. SOURCE: U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary December 2006 (CB-07-14)