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

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

Total Selected Commodities           288,982   1,285,650     225,286     728,110

Ingots And Steel For Castings          4,297      15,158       3,250      10,786
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             29,742     133,634      26,482      71,965
Wire Rods                              7,319      32,181       6,733      17,865
Structural Shapes Heavy                  847       4,432         385       1,286
Plates Cut Lengths                    20,209     107,740      10,759      37,127
Plates In Coils                       11,665      54,859       5,981      16,403
Bars - Hot Rolled                      8,212      40,527       4,186      18,738
Bars - Light Shaped                    1,502       7,332       1,632       4,623
Bars - Cold Finished                  22,357     111,812      19,587      72,303
Oil Country Goods                     12,819      26,606         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          18         128         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       8,657       8,355         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe - Not Specified              9,538       8,794         (-)         (-)
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               43,233     283,212      29,605     167,874
Wire Drawn                            10,784      62,495      10,599      45,614
Sheets Hot Rolled                      3,787      10,689       5,006       8,394
Sheets Cold Rolled                    83,855     322,511      90,981     216,207
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,555       6,961         872       2,317
Strip - Cold Rolled                    8,587      48,222       9,226      36,605
                                           

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
April 2007 (CB-07-72)