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

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

Total Selected Commodities           451,237   1,844,646     857,715   4,308,936

Ingots And Steel For Castings          5,913      15,480      16,691      66,396
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             51,463     149,504      88,842     407,522
Wire Rods                              9,042      26,455      20,512      92,011
Structural Shapes Heavy                  925       4,224       2,165      11,688
Plates Cut Lengths                    25,412      82,368      52,631     262,488
Plates In Coils                        9,360      26,210      22,333     108,931
Bars - Hot Rolled                     13,526      58,894      28,358     165,146
Bars - Light Shaped                    5,070      15,682       7,481      38,387
Bars - Cold Finished                  42,835     192,458      69,758     415,500
Oil Country Goods                     35,236     162,626      41,825     158,034
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete         378       3,175         111         674
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       1,287       5,835       2,884      17,558
Line Pipe - Not Specified              1,550      16,693         253       1,885
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               68,070     583,973     106,824     919,973
Wire Drawn                            23,192     101,255      33,654     213,765
Sheets Hot Rolled                      8,825      15,926      26,837      57,173
Sheets Cold Rolled                   129,058     301,704     299,023   1,179,141
Strip - Hot Rolled                       921       2,485       1,575       7,716
Strip - Cold Rolled                   19,174      79,698      35,957     184,949
                                           

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 Janet Freas
(301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau.

SOURCE:  U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary
November 2009 (CB-09-193)