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

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

Total Selected Commodities           349,046   1,694,549     385,004   1,756,680

Ingots And Steel For Castings          6,590      23,880       6,175      23,508
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             37,805     172,194      38,440     176,640
Wire Rods                              8,364      37,326       9,455      42,064
Structural Shapes Heavy                  551       2,883       1,011       5,281
Plates Cut Lengths                    21,037     104,532      25,782     138,815
Plates In Coils                        7,451      34,611      15,140      74,488
Bars - Hot Rolled                     11,299      61,045      11,061      54,395
Bars - Light Shaped                    2,424      13,849       1,884       9,347
Bars - Cold Finished                  27,587     157,588      29,272     150,559
Oil Country Goods                     10,882      43,349      21,107      50,571
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          29         181          18         128
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       1,610       5,988      11,744      11,836
Line Pipe - Not Specified                104         675      12,003      11,207
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               42,419     346,220      57,153     383,888
Wire Drawn                            13,001      81,499      14,393      85,568
Sheets Hot Rolled                     10,459      22,939       4,779      13,197
Sheets Cold Rolled                   132,861     508,931     111,872     447,962
Strip - Hot Rolled                       896       4,366       1,792       7,782
Strip - Cold Rolled                   13,677      72,490      11,925      69,445
                                           

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
May 2008 (CB-08-94)