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

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

Total Selected Commodities           275,629   1,157,758     527,331   2,624,704

Ingots And Steel For Castings          3,237       7,484       8,813      31,776
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             33,661      97,362      54,946     253,625
Wire Rods                              4,702      14,832      12,313      55,894
Structural Shapes Heavy                  587       3,033       1,067       5,730
Plates Cut Lengths                    11,570      38,299      32,810     165,170
Plates In Coils                        6,012      15,498      12,711      60,593
Bars - Hot Rolled                      8,828      39,523      16,744      95,855
Bars - Light Shaped                    2,767       8,879       4,057      21,718
Bars - Cold Finished                  28,698     132,576      42,413     248,589
Oil Country Goods                     29,048     111,570      20,324      78,739
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          34         292          32         192
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet         606       2,972       2,283      16,010
Line Pipe - Not Specified              1,306      14,527         109         700
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               43,826     389,276      64,208     541,005
Wire Drawn                            13,245      61,021      20,285     128,292
Sheets Hot Rolled                      6,199      10,852      16,594      35,184
Sheets Cold Rolled                    69,615     159,804     195,213     769,322
Strip - Hot Rolled                       258         908       1,262       5,999
Strip - Cold Rolled                   11,432      49,047      21,147     110,313
                                           

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
July 2009 (CB-09-129)