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

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

Total Selected Commodities           440,144   2,159,297     492,695   2,298,932

Ingots And Steel For Castings          7,433      27,196       7,405      28,967
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             46,133     210,696      48,468     232,526
Wire Rods                             10,488      47,349      11,959      54,570
Structural Shapes Heavy                  812       4,337       1,402       7,841
Plates Cut Lengths                    27,123     135,591      34,364     186,983
Plates In Coils                       10,188      47,491      19,057      97,717
Bars - Hot Rolled                     14,115      78,769      14,011      71,778
Bars - Light Shaped                    3,193      17,538       2,404      12,159
Bars - Cold Finished                  34,398     199,974      36,379     191,172
Oil Country Goods                     16,311      61,775      31,191      83,255
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          32         192          20         134
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       1,660       6,240      16,896      17,221
Line Pipe - Not Specified                109         700      12,881      11,892
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               53,362     446,070      70,317     477,045
Wire Drawn                            16,973     106,386      18,593     112,963
Sheets Hot Rolled                     14,321      30,529       6,451      16,355
Sheets Cold Rolled                   165,056     641,987     144,262     602,205
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,056       5,167       1,934       8,327
Strip - Cold Rolled                   17,383      91,310      14,702      85,825
                                           

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
June 2008 (CB-08-110)