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

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

Total Selected Commodities           169,286     809,945     185,149     809,725

Ingots And Steel For Castings          3,017      11,201       1,893       6,657
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             19,922      91,344      18,385      80,400
Wire Rods                              3,748      16,689       4,787      20,465
Structural Shapes Heavy                  281       1,385         590       2,942
Plates Cut Lengths                    10,533      51,505      12,269      63,283
Plates In Coils                        3,840      17,624       8,680      38,940
Bars - Hot Rolled                      4,941      27,748       5,365      25,025
Bars - Light Shaped                    1,139       6,593       1,083       5,278
Bars - Cold Finished                  12,963      70,791      14,292      71,356
Oil Country Goods                      6,271      25,478       3,101       7,247
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete           4           9         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet         950       3,218       6,081       5,470
Line Pipe - Not Specified                (-)         (-)       5,186       5,197
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               19,535     158,625      29,849     182,841
Wire Drawn                             6,112      38,064       7,020      39,197
Sheets Hot Rolled                      3,426       7,034       2,317       6,018
Sheets Cold Rolled                    64,951     240,018      57,714     214,883
Strip - Hot Rolled                       347       1,684       1,015       4,387
Strip - Cold Rolled                    7,307      40,934       5,521      30,138
                                           

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
March 2008 (CB-08-62)