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

                                January 2007            January 2006
                                Cumulative to           Cumulative to
                                Date - Final            Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities            92,586     419,955      72,732     243,204

Ingots And Steel For Castings            636       2,680         841       3,637
Blooms, Billets And Slabs              8,488      38,526       6,994      18,370
Wire Rods                              2,535      10,336       2,882       7,736
Structural Shapes Heavy                  341       1,709         171         612
Plates Cut Lengths                     6,644      32,826       3,411      12,996
Plates In Coils                        4,992      22,445       2,044       5,397
Bars - Hot Rolled                      3,381      16,076       1,705       7,406
Bars - Light Shaped                      633       3,037         501       1,467
Bars - Cold Finished                   7,615      37,170       5,937      23,050
Oil Country Goods                        (-)         (-)         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete         (-)         (-)         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet         (-)         (-)         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe - Not Specified                (-)         (-)         (-)         (-)
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               16,778      98,571      11,236      62,599
Wire Drawn                             4,249      21,942       3,865      16,614
Sheets Hot Rolled                      1,437       3,472       1,902       2,929
Sheets Cold Rolled                    30,979     110,940      27,591      66,420
Strip - Hot Rolled                       849       3,698         368         813
Strip - Cold Rolled                    3,028      16,529       3,284      13,159
                                           

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
February 2007 (CB-07-43)