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

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

Total Selected Commodities           399,616   1,636,221     778,233   3,917,157

Ingots And Steel For Castings          5,032      12,602      15,233      60,289
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             46,454     133,436      78,860     365,714
Wire Rods                              7,866      23,063      18,580      84,015
Structural Shapes Heavy                  868       4,021       1,991      10,847
Plates Cut Lengths                    19,783      63,162      48,292     243,739
Plates In Coils                        8,172      21,894      20,687     100,326
Bars - Hot Rolled                     11,871      52,463      25,416     147,748
Bars - Light Shaped                    4,254      12,983       6,877      35,576
Bars - Cold Finished                  39,475     176,714      63,677     378,740
Oil Country Goods                     33,838     145,423      35,085     134,104
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          58         515         111         674
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       1,186       5,520       2,874      17,464
Line Pipe - Not Specified              1,548      16,677         253       1,885
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               61,442     536,222      96,116     826,379
Wire Drawn                            20,234      88,804      30,418     193,025
Sheets Hot Rolled                      7,722      13,832      24,099      51,525
Sheets Cold Rolled                   111,806     255,595     275,000   1,088,395
Strip - Hot Rolled                       776       2,102       1,565       7,662
Strip - Cold Rolled                   17,230      71,194      33,099     169,051
                                           

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
October 2009 (CB-09-175)