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

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

Total Selected Commodities           257,766   1,245,542     288,982   1,285,650

Ingots And Steel For Castings          4,488      16,928       4,297      15,158
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             29,134     132,672      29,742     133,634
Wire Rods                              5,601      25,283       7,319      32,181
Structural Shapes Heavy                  385       1,869         847       4,432
Plates Cut Lengths                    16,540      80,745      20,209     107,740
Plates In Coils                        5,277      24,417      11,665      54,859
Bars - Hot Rolled                      8,538      45,541       8,212      40,527
Bars - Light Shaped                    1,849      10,837       1,502       7,332
Bars - Cold Finished                  19,810     111,519      22,357     111,812
Oil Country Goods                      8,453      33,382      12,819      26,606
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete           4          18          18         128
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet         985       3,406       8,657       8,355
Line Pipe - Not Specified                 14          89       9,538       8,794
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               30,816     254,612      43,233     283,212
Wire Drawn                             9,327      59,121      10,784      62,495
Sheets Hot Rolled                      7,646      17,041       3,787      10,689
Sheets Cold Rolled                    97,702     367,523      83,855     322,511
Strip - Hot Rolled                       741       3,638       1,555       6,961
Strip - Cold Rolled                   10,458      56,899       8,587      48,222
                                           

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
April 2008 (CB-08-81)