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

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

Total Selected Commodities           559,953   2,287,332     991,392   4,953,777

Ingots And Steel For Castings          7,269      19,935      20,110      78,040
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             62,914     184,509     103,925     467,577
Wire Rods                             11,856      35,817      23,444     101,997
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,337       5,800       2,377      12,653
Plates Cut Lengths                    33,885     113,421      60,291     298,497
Plates In Coils                       12,927      38,892      24,509     117,743
Bars - Hot Rolled                     17,243      75,159      31,657     185,037
Bars - Light Shaped                    6,351      20,250       8,549      43,417
Bars - Cold Finished                  51,284     231,086      81,726     483,131
Oil Country Goods                     41,699     198,418      64,111     235,278
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete         394       3,198         122         793
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       1,392       6,325       2,950      18,020
Line Pipe - Not Specified              1,573      16,909         414       4,837
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               81,297     693,429     127,233   1,101,960
Structural Pipe & Tube                   (-)         (-)         (-)         (-)
Wire Drawn                            28,838     126,338      38,923     244,747
Sheets Hot Rolled                     12,200      22,669      30,829      65,036
Sheets Cold Rolled                   162,514     391,663     327,382   1,272,895
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,210       3,224       1,604       7,863
Strip - Cold Rolled                   23,768     100,289      41,235     214,258
                                           

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
January 2010 (CB-10-23)