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

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

Total Selected Commodities           607,993   2,916,729     482,371   1,574,610

Ingots And Steel For Castings          8,860      36,249      10,042      24,436
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             59,398     298,502      57,000     159,849
Wire Rods                             13,863      65,379      12,417      33,430
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,779      10,221       1,057       3,662
Plates Cut Lengths                    44,522     246,768      24,052      85,697
Plates In Coils                       27,628     152,878      17,494      47,331
Bars - Hot Rolled                     16,696      86,868       9,444      43,926
Bars - Light Shaped                    2,950      14,878       4,194      11,595
Bars - Cold Finished                  43,688     234,523      41,335     156,543
Oil Country Goods                     40,932     116,314         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          27         146         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet      19,124      19,897         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe - Not Specified             16,790      15,725         (-)         (-)
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               83,384     576,885      63,879     353,952
Wire Drawn                            21,929     136,846      21,704      95,122
Sheets Hot Rolled                      7,414      18,805       8,645      14,123
Sheets Cold Rolled                   179,115     772,566     190,353     464,538
Strip - Hot Rolled                     2,008       8,705       1,410       3,526
Strip - Cold Rolled                   17,887     104,575      19,345      76,878
                                           

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
July 2007 (CB-07-119)