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

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

Total Selected Commodities           804,725   4,022,609     678,940   2,297,152

Ingots And Steel For Castings         12,721      54,978      13,350      33,293
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             78,392     400,670      76,906     226,646
Wire Rods                             18,478      90,424      16,486      44,750
Structural Shapes Heavy                2,254      13,425       1,459       5,215
Plates Cut Lengths                    63,690     372,304      35,870     138,548
Plates In Coils                       37,909     219,093      25,498      72,218
Bars - Hot Rolled                     20,511     111,556      14,099      66,721
Bars - Light Shaped                    3,802      20,087       6,591      20,028
Bars - Cold Finished                  58,474     329,040      56,568     220,086
Oil Country Goods                     52,778     150,865         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          29         170         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet      22,541      24,782         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe - Not Specified             20,154      19,231         (-)         (-)
Stainless Pipe & Tubing              111,659     815,894      88,878     509,020
Wire Drawn                            29,372     191,960      29,146     129,986
Sheets Hot Rolled                     12,345      29,848      16,144      23,650
Sheets Cold Rolled                   232,283   1,023,669     269,674     696,091
Strip - Hot Rolled                     2,236       9,367       2,083       5,784
Strip - Cold Rolled                   25,096     145,246      26,188     105,117
                                           

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 Maria Iseman
(301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau.

SOURCE:  U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary
September 2007 (CB-07-147)