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

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

Total Selected Commodities           880,762   4,419,548     755,513   2,590,319

Ingots And Steel For Castings         12,876      55,428      13,671      34,296
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             86,039     437,323      85,087     255,502
Wire Rods                             20,567     101,383      18,186      50,636
Structural Shapes Heavy                2,411      14,416       1,743       6,351
Plates Cut Lengths                    70,024     409,912      40,333     161,705
Plates In Coils                       40,971     234,332      27,115      77,787
Bars - Hot Rolled                     21,696     118,749      16,392      75,606
Bars - Light Shaped                    4,086      21,654       7,632      23,518
Bars - Cold Finished                  64,230     363,807      61,601     242,291
Oil Country Goods                     56,868     164,624         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          35         184         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet      23,360      25,880         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe - Not Specified             20,170      19,394         (-)         (-)
Stainless Pipe & Tubing              124,530     911,408      99,719     567,353
Wire Drawn                            32,485     212,646      32,564     146,979
Sheets Hot Rolled                     14,644      34,833      19,281      27,529
Sheets Cold Rolled                   254,950   1,122,242     300,712     797,685
Strip - Hot Rolled                     2,471      10,126       2,395       6,726
Strip - Cold Rolled                   28,347     161,207      29,083     116,356
                                           

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
October 2007 (CB-07-162)