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

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

Total Selected Commodities           527,331   2,624,704     607,993   2,916,729

Ingots And Steel For Castings          8,813      31,776       8,860      36,249
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             54,946     253,625      59,398     298,502
Wire Rods                             12,313      55,894      13,863      65,379
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,067       5,730       1,779      10,221
Plates Cut Lengths                    32,810     165,170      44,522     246,768
Plates In Coils                       12,711      60,593      27,628     152,878
Bars - Hot Rolled                     16,744      95,855      16,696      86,868
Bars - Light Shaped                    4,057      21,718       2,950      14,878
Bars - Cold Finished                  42,413     248,589      43,688     234,523
Oil Country Goods                     20,324      78,739      40,932     116,314
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          32         192          27         146
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       2,283      16,010      19,124      19,897
Line Pipe - Not Specified                109         700      16,790      15,725
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               64,208     541,005      83,384     576,885
Wire Drawn                            20,285     128,292      21,929     136,846
Sheets Hot Rolled                     16,594      35,184       7,414      18,805
Sheets Cold Rolled                   195,213     769,322     179,115     772,566
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,262       5,999       2,008       8,705
Strip - Cold Rolled                   21,147     110,313      17,887     104,575
                                           

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
July 2008 (CB-08-127)