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

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

Total Selected Commodities           356,304   1,468,714     707,149   3,553,871

Ingots And Steel For Castings          4,828      11,975      14,305      56,406
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             42,572     120,959      72,309     337,438
Wire Rods                              6,665      19,586      16,720      76,232
Structural Shapes Heavy                  783       3,732       1,845      10,054
Plates Cut Lengths                    15,414      49,011      43,781     222,835
Plates In Coils                        7,174      18,738      18,413      89,571
Bars - Hot Rolled                     10,918      48,490      23,020     134,222
Bars - Light Shaped                    3,631      11,099       5,983      31,183
Bars - Cold Finished                  36,043     163,719      57,542     343,595
Oil Country Goods                     31,847     133,492      30,063     110,971
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          58         515          72         487
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       1,131       5,283       2,782      16,819
Line Pipe - Not Specified              1,548      16,677         253       1,885
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               55,612     488,839      85,771     734,551
Wire Drawn                            17,794      79,069      27,332     173,815
Sheets Hot Rolled                      7,314      12,974      21,814      46,762
Sheets Cold Rolled                    96,985     219,343     253,846   1,007,037
Strip - Hot Rolled                       668       1,694       1,417       6,802
Strip - Cold Rolled                   15,318      63,520      29,881     153,206
                                           

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
September 2009 (CB-09-160)