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

                                February 2009           February 2008
                                Cumulative to           Cumulative to
                                Date - Final            Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities           105,813     461,175     169,286     809,945

Ingots And Steel For Castings            437       1,297       3,017      11,201
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             13,600      42,824      19,922      91,344
Wire Rods                              1,582       5,355       3,748      16,689
Structural Shapes Heavy                  237       1,464         281       1,385
Plates Cut Lengths                     6,364      20,653      10,533      51,505
Plates In Coils                        1,575       4,360       3,840      17,624
Bars - Hot Rolled                      3,069      15,208       4,941      27,748
Bars - Light Shaped                      697       3,139       1,139       6,593
Bars - Cold Finished                  10,223      50,014      12,963      70,791
Oil Country Goods                     15,161      53,913       6,271      25,478
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete           1           7           4           9
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet         369       1,630         950       3,218
Line Pipe - Not Specified                462       7,419         (-)         (-)
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               16,531     144,420      19,535     158,625
Wire Drawn                             4,556      22,519       6,112      38,064
Sheets Hot Rolled                      3,451       6,214       3,426       7,034
Sheets Cold Rolled                    23,490      61,963      64,951     240,018
Strip - Hot Rolled                        21          71         347       1,684
Strip - Cold Rolled                    3,986      18,703       7,307      40,934
                                           

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
March 2009 (CB-09-63)