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

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

Total Selected Commodities           708,683   3,481,805     577,091   1,915,473

Ingots And Steel For Castings         11,296      46,968      11,719      29,015
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             68,751     352,048      67,844     191,792
Wire Rods                             16,389      79,563      14,739      39,756
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,952      11,299       1,223       4,296
Plates Cut Lengths                    54,029     306,205      29,654     108,692
Plates In Coils                       33,915     191,246      21,206      58,415
Bars - Hot Rolled                     18,551      99,103      11,599      54,004
Bars - Light Shaped                    3,416      18,132       5,189      14,919
Bars - Cold Finished                  50,828     280,317      49,259     188,667
Oil Country Goods                     45,035     126,225         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          29         170         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet      20,691      21,944         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe - Not Specified             18,715      17,543         (-)         (-)
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               97,483     694,949      75,773     426,205
Wire Drawn                            25,438     164,134      25,342     111,939
Sheets Hot Rolled                      9,521      23,392      10,229      16,600
Sheets Cold Rolled                   208,833     913,637     229,500     577,507
Strip - Hot Rolled                     2,165       9,037       1,569       3,973
Strip - Cold Rolled                   21,646     125,893      22,244      89,694
                                           

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
August 2007 (CB-07-133)