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 December 2006 December 2005 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 1,036,797 3,807,796 885,591 3,022,794 Ingots And Steel For Castings 16,799 44,400 16,573 44,096 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 113,282 366,467 128,035 363,197 Wire Rods 26,185 80,804 35,593 100,398 Structural Shapes Heavy 2,819 11,461 1,500 6,229 Plates Cut Lengths 60,719 270,287 42,778 155,607 Plates In Coils 41,364 137,825 32,898 101,014 Bars - Hot Rolled 26,146 117,655 22,686 92,712 Bars - Light Shaped 9,754 32,430 6,913 21,730 Bars - Cold Finished 85,530 357,030 92,340 357,077 Stainless Pipe & Tubing 142,012 820,740 121,963 657,324 Wire Drawn 44,288 208,998 39,777 173,951 Sheets Hot Rolled 29,171 47,978 13,978 27,291 Sheets Cold Rolled 396,842 1,137,724 289,837 760,682 Strip - Hot Rolled 3,519 11,991 3,425 9,926 Strip - Cold Rolled 38,367 162,006 37,297 151,560 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 Vanessa Ware (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau. SOURCE: U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary January 2007 (CB-07-28)