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

                                January 2008            January 2007
                                Cumulative to           Cumulative to
                                Date - Final            Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities            82,545     403,508      92,586     419,955

Ingots And Steel For Castings          2,051       7,448         636       2,680
Blooms, Billets And Slabs              8,757      42,446       8,488      38,526
Wire Rods                              1,965       8,906       2,535      10,336
Structural Shapes Heavy                   92         460         341       1,709
Plates Cut Lengths                     5,067      26,167       6,644      32,826
Plates In Coils                          803       4,612       4,992      22,445
Bars - Hot Rolled                      2,410      13,795       3,381      16,076
Bars - Light Shaped                      539       2,688         633       3,037
Bars - Cold Finished                   5,929      32,409       7,615      37,170
Oil Country Goods                      3,831      14,025         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete           1           3         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet         533       1,343         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe - Not Specified                (-)         (-)         (-)         (-)
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               10,859      88,442      16,778      98,571
Wire Drawn                             3,054      19,276       4,249      21,942
Sheets Hot Rolled                      1,381       2,501       1,437       3,472
Sheets Cold Rolled                    31,398     115,103      30,979     110,940
Strip - Hot Rolled                       185         878         849       3,698
Strip - Cold Rolled                    3,687      23,008       3,028      16,529
                                          

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
February 2008 (CB-08-48)