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

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

Total Selected Commodities           503,735   2,049,824     931,423   4,660,054

Ingots And Steel For Castings          6,550      17,452      18,967      74,303
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             55,676     162,701      96,197     436,412
Wire Rods                             10,594      31,683      22,622      99,075
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,123       5,009       2,303      12,285
Plates Cut Lengths                    29,531      97,618      57,158     283,582
Plates In Coils                       11,263      33,099      23,680     115,002
Bars - Hot Rolled                     15,065      65,561      30,228     177,105
Bars - Light Shaped                    5,777      18,131       8,231      42,031
Bars - Cold Finished                  47,086     212,341      76,088     452,460
Oil Country Goods                     39,739     178,673      53,327     190,745
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete         378       3,175         122         793
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       1,353       6,049       2,898      17,670
Line Pipe - Not Specified              1,551      16,700         253       1,885
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               74,341     631,941     117,665   1,017,906
Wire Drawn                            25,828     113,352      36,706     231,788
Sheets Hot Rolled                     10,557      19,290      29,067      61,453
Sheets Cold Rolled                   145,124     345,832     315,390   1,235,670
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,019       2,672       1,597       7,833
Strip - Cold Rolled                   21,180      88,546      38,925     202,057
                                           

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
December 2009 (CB-10-11)