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

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

Total Selected Commodities           956,039   4,826,268     853,224   3,003,610

Ingots And Steel For Castings         14,556      62,829      14,511      36,974
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             93,848     474,165      95,150     290,948
Wire Rods                             22,258     109,455      20,552      59,247
Structural Shapes Heavy                2,539      15,269       2,095       8,218
Plates Cut Lengths                    74,417     433,884      47,047     205,908
Plates In Coils                       43,484     246,930      29,780      88,728
Bars - Hot Rolled                     24,464     135,140      19,699      89,395
Bars - Light Shaped                    4,405      23,346       8,437      26,657
Bars - Cold Finished                  71,659     409,700      70,142     281,835
Oil Country Goods                     60,666     182,529         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          63         284         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet      23,630      27,011         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe - Not Specified             20,577      21,104         (-)         (-)
Stainless Pipe & Tubing              136,555   1,018,231     112,707     641,419
Wire Drawn                            36,123     235,613      36,731     168,159
Sheets Hot Rolled                     16,224      38,314      24,766      37,057
Sheets Cold Rolled                   276,040   1,202,639     336,592     929,027
Strip - Hot Rolled                     2,567      10,632       2,684       7,980
Strip - Cold Rolled                   31,964     179,191      32,331     132,059
                                           

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 Janet Freas
(301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau.

SOURCE:  U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary
November 2007 (CB-07-185)