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

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

Total Selected Commodities           385,004   1,756,680     302,023     983,843

Ingots And Steel For Castings          6,175      23,508       6,009      16,176
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             38,440     176,640      35,755      97,312
Wire Rods                              9,455      42,064       8,839      23,406
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,011       5,281         669       2,371
Plates Cut Lengths                    25,782     138,815      14,103      49,393
Plates In Coils                       15,140      74,488       7,967      22,402
Bars - Hot Rolled                     11,061      54,395       5,687      25,877
Bars - Light Shaped                    1,884       9,347       2,521       6,830
Bars - Cold Finished                  29,272     150,559      26,630     100,391
Oil Country Goods                     21,107      50,571         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          18         128         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet      11,744      11,836         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe - Not Specified             12,003      11,207         (-)         (-)
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               57,153     383,888      40,292     230,305
Wire Drawn                            14,393      85,568      14,036      60,823
Sheets Hot Rolled                      4,779      13,197       5,572       9,272
Sheets Cold Rolled                   111,872     447,962     120,679     287,743
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,792       7,782       1,126       2,874
Strip - Cold Rolled                   11,925      69,445      12,138      48,667
                                         

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
May 2007 (CB-07-89)