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

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

Total Selected Commodities           153,046     667,274     257,766   1,245,542

Ingots And Steel For Castings          1,721       3,665       4,488      16,928
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             18,479      57,041      29,134     132,672
Wire Rods                              2,267       7,285       5,601      25,283
Structural Shapes Heavy                  345       2,020         385       1,869
Plates Cut Lengths                     7,485      24,095      16,540      80,745
Plates In Coils                        1,943       5,413       5,277      24,417
Bars - Hot Rolled                      4,701      21,983       8,538      45,541
Bars - Light Shaped                    1,378       5,609       1,849      10,837
Bars - Cold Finished                  15,737      75,395      19,810     111,519
Oil Country Goods                     22,054      76,946       8,453      33,382
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          13          59           4          18
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet         375       1,670         985       3,406
Line Pipe - Not Specified                479       7,805          14          89
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               24,376     222,067      30,816     254,612
Wire Drawn                             6,653      32,883       9,327      59,121
Sheets Hot Rolled                      4,686       8,428       7,646      17,041
Sheets Cold Rolled                    33,865      85,272      97,702     367,523
Strip - Hot Rolled                        48         149         741       3,638
Strip - Cold Rolled                    6,443      29,487      10,458      56,899
                                           

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
April 2009 (CB-09-78)