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

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

Total Selected Commodities         1,103,248   5,538,800   1,036,797   3,807,796

Ingots And Steel For Castings         17,471      73,727      16,799      44,400
Blooms, Billets And Slabs            111,680     554,404     113,282     366,467
Wire Rods                             25,499     123,661      26,185      80,804
Structural Shapes Heavy                2,723      16,510       2,819      11,461
Plates Cut Lengths                    86,279     497,200      60,719     270,287
Plates In Coils                       44,966     253,727      41,364     137,825
Bars - Hot Rolled                     29,112     160,517      26,146     117,655
Bars - Light Shaped                    5,574      29,201       9,754      32,430
Bars - Cold Finished                  84,490     480,039      85,530     357,030
Oil Country Goods                     67,180     213,729           0           0
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete         122         434           0           0
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet      25,591      31,079           0           0
Line Pipe - Not Specified             20,626      21,258           0           0
Stainless Pipe & Tubing              157,077   1,181,847     142,012     820,740
Wire Drawn                            42,202     272,644      44,288     208,998
Sheets Hot Rolled                     20,121      47,068      29,171      47,978
Sheets Cold Rolled                   322,074   1,360,290     396,842   1,137,724
Strip - Hot Rolled                     2,820      11,922       3,519      11,991
Strip - Cold Rolled                   37,641     209,542      38,367     162,006
                                          

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
January 2008 (CB-08-34)