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

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

Total Selected Commodities           623,278   3,122,253     708,683   3,481,805

Ingots And Steel For Castings         11,466      44,174      11,296      46,968
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             64,715     300,840      68,751     352,048
Wire Rods                             15,103      68,704      16,389      79,563
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,608       8,822       1,952      11,299
Plates Cut Lengths                    38,590     198,324      54,029     306,205
Plates In Coils                       16,791      80,445      33,915     191,246
Bars - Hot Rolled                     19,955     115,336      18,551      99,103
Bars - Light Shaped                    5,011      26,532       3,416      18,132
Bars - Cold Finished                  50,690     303,462      50,828     280,317
Oil Country Goods                     24,981      90,788      45,035     126,225
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          56         308          29         170
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       2,294      16,064      20,691      21,944
Line Pipe - Not Specified                253       1,885      18,715      17,543
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               75,046     635,440      97,483     694,949
Wire Drawn                            23,488     149,651      25,438     164,134
Sheets Hot Rolled                     18,690      40,436       9,521      23,392
Sheets Cold Rolled                   227,395     901,462     208,833     913,637
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,327       6,415       2,165       9,037
Strip - Cold Rolled                   25,818     133,164      21,646     125,893
                                           

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
August 2008 (CB-08-141)