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

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

Total Selected Commodities           931,423   4,660,054   1,029,833   5,187,564

Ingots And Steel For Castings         18,967      74,303      15,929      67,420
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             96,197     436,412     103,756     519,059
Wire Rods                             22,622      99,075      23,868     116,251
Structural Shapes Heavy                2,303      12,285       2,656      16,027
Plates Cut Lengths                    57,158     283,582      80,987     466,584
Plates In Coils                       23,680     115,002      44,246     250,357
Bars - Hot Rolled                     30,228     177,105      26,471     144,921
Bars - Light Shaped                    8,231      42,031       5,079      26,684
Bars - Cold Finished                  76,088     452,460      77,817     441,339
Oil Country Goods                     53,327     190,745      63,934     197,676
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete         122         793          63         284
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       2,898      17,670      24,398      29,411
Line Pipe - Not Specified                253       1,885      20,577      21,104
Stainless Pipe & Tubing              117,665   1,017,906     147,581   1,110,659
Wire Drawn                            36,706     231,788      39,260     254,721
Sheets Hot Rolled                     29,067      61,453      18,062      43,477
Sheets Cold Rolled                   315,390   1,235,670     297,648   1,275,625
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,597       7,833       2,738      11,482
Strip - Cold Rolled                   38,925     202,057      34,762     194,485
                                           

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
December 2008 (CB-09-14)