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

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

Total Selected Commodities           492,695   2,298,932     394,227   1,277,540

Ingots And Steel For Castings          7,405      28,967       8,328      20,494
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             48,468     232,526      46,742     128,747
Wire Rods                             11,959      54,570      10,651      28,555
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,402       7,841         949       3,333
Plates Cut Lengths                    34,364     186,983      18,715      66,322
Plates In Coils                       19,057      97,717      11,798      32,687
Bars - Hot Rolled                     14,011      71,778       7,640      35,131
Bars - Light Shaped                    2,404      12,159       3,458       9,512
Bars - Cold Finished                  36,379     191,172      33,453     126,273
Oil Country Goods                     31,191      83,255         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          20         134         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet      16,896      17,221         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe - Not Specified             12,881      11,892         (-)         (-)
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               70,317     477,045      53,127     294,077
Wire Drawn                            18,593     112,963      18,020      78,639
Sheets Hot Rolled                      6,451      16,355       6,962      11,588
Sheets Cold Rolled                   144,262     602,205     157,558     378,062
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,934       8,327       1,246       3,081
Strip - Cold Rolled                   14,702      85,825      15,580      61,038
                                           

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
June 2007 (CB-07-103)