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

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

Total Selected Commodities         1,029,833   5,187,564     947,496   3,411,679

Ingots And Steel For Castings         15,929      67,420      15,000      38,674
Blooms, Billets And Slabs            103,756     519,059     102,432     323,288
Wire Rods                             23,868     116,251      23,289      69,411
Structural Shapes Heavy                2,656      16,027       2,428       9,819
Plates Cut Lengths                    80,987     466,584      54,093     240,400
Plates In Coils                       44,246     250,357      36,414     114,673
Bars - Hot Rolled                     26,471     144,921      22,616     103,260
Bars - Light Shaped                    5,079      26,684       9,024      29,207
Bars - Cold Finished                  77,817     441,339      78,559     322,092
Oil Country Goods                     63,934     197,676         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          63         284         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet      24,398      29,411         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe - Not Specified             20,577      21,104         (-)         (-)
Stainless Pipe & Tubing              147,581   1,110,659     128,036     732,012
Wire Drawn                            39,260     254,721      40,360     187,850
Sheets Hot Rolled                     18,062      43,477      27,940      45,636
Sheets Cold Rolled                   297,648   1,275,625     368,711   1,037,713
Strip - Hot Rolled                     2,738      11,482       3,088       9,749
Strip - Cold Rolled                   34,762     194,485      35,507     147,893
                                           

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
December 2007 (CB-08-15)