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

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

Total Selected Commodities           185,149     809,725     145,849     476,120

Ingots And Steel For Castings          1,893       6,657       1,706       6,689
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             18,385      80,400      16,454      43,545
Wire Rods                              4,787      20,465       4,614      12,300
Structural Shapes Heavy                  590       2,942         222         794
Plates Cut Lengths                    12,269      63,283       7,372      26,198
Plates In Coils                        8,680      38,940       3,717      10,142
Bars - Hot Rolled                      5,365      25,025       2,780      12,194
Bars - Light Shaped                    1,083       5,278         974       2,828
Bars - Cold Finished                  14,292      71,356      12,397      46,935
Oil Country Goods                      3,101       7,247         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete         (-)         (-)         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       6,081       5,470         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe - Not Specified              5,186       5,197         (-)         (-)
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               29,849     182,841      19,897     113,443
Wire Drawn                             7,020      39,197       6,729      29,513
Sheets Hot Rolled                      2,317       6,018       3,248       5,172
Sheets Cold Rolled                    57,714     214,883      59,433     141,549
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,015       4,387         619       1,559
Strip - Cold Rolled                    5,521      30,138       5,688      23,257
                                           

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
March 2007 (CB-07-58)