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

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

Total Selected Commodities           195,089     846,267     349,046   1,694,549

Ingots And Steel For Castings          2,018       4,266       6,590      23,880
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             23,066      69,767      37,805     172,194
Wire Rods                              3,282      10,552       8,364      37,326
Structural Shapes Heavy                  440       2,322         551       2,883
Plates Cut Lengths                     8,722      28,933      21,037     104,532
Plates In Coils                        3,302       8,826       7,451      34,611
Bars - Hot Rolled                      6,394      28,504      11,299      61,045
Bars - Light Shaped                    1,826       6,707       2,424      13,849
Bars - Cold Finished                  20,517      97,497      27,587     157,588
Oil Country Goods                     25,242      93,264      10,882      43,349
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          34         290          29         181
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet         500       2,352       1,610       5,988
Line Pipe - Not Specified                479       7,805         104         675
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               31,542     286,429      42,419     346,220
Wire Drawn                             8,787      42,156      13,001      81,499
Sheets Hot Rolled                      5,432       9,524      10,459      22,939
Sheets Cold Rolled                    45,133     109,676     132,861     508,931
Strip - Hot Rolled                       134         604         896       4,366
Strip - Cold Rolled                    8,238      36,793      13,677      72,490
                                          

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
May 2009 (CB-09-94)