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

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

Total Selected Commodities           235,109   1,008,158     440,144   2,159,297

Ingots And Steel For Castings          2,675       6,104       7,433      27,196
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             28,133      82,184      46,133     210,696
Wire Rods                              3,891      12,082      10,488      47,349
Structural Shapes Heavy                  532       2,790         812       4,337
Plates Cut Lengths                     9,828      32,686      27,123     135,591
Plates In Coils                        5,000      13,026      10,188      47,491
Bars - Hot Rolled                      8,062      36,273      14,115      78,769
Bars - Light Shaped                    2,418       8,074       3,193      17,538
Bars - Cold Finished                  24,976     116,722      34,398     199,974
Oil Country Goods                     27,914     105,962      16,311      61,775
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          34         292          32         192
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet         568       2,748       1,660       6,240
Line Pipe - Not Specified                706       9,236         109         700
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               37,583     342,011      53,362     446,070
Wire Drawn                            11,039      51,534      16,973     106,386
Sheets Hot Rolled                      5,671       9,971      14,321      30,529
Sheets Cold Rolled                    56,094     132,613     165,056     641,987
Strip - Hot Rolled                       147         649       1,056       5,167
Strip - Cold Rolled                    9,839      43,199      17,383      91,310
                                           

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
June 2009 (CB-09-115)