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

                                June 2010               June 2009
                                Cumulative to           Cumulative to
                                Date - Final            Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities           388,296   1,566,135     275,629   1,157,758

Ingots And Steel For Castings          8,751      26,425       3,237       7,484
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             42,028     142,249      33,661      97,362
Wire Rods                              9,614      32,444       4,702      14,832
Structural Shapes Heavy                  864       4,005         587       3,033
Plates Cut Lengths                    20,742      80,328      11,570      38,299
Plates In Coils                       11,341      42,516       6,012      15,498
Bars - Hot Rolled                     10,954      47,424       8,828      39,523
Bars - Light Shaped                    3,888      13,535       2,767       8,879
Bars - Cold Finished                  34,468     151,757      28,698     132,576
Oil Country Goods                     17,577     110,811      29,048     111,570
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete         (-)           4          34         292
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       1,031       4,125         606       2,972
Line Pipe - Not Specified                 92         668       1,306      14,527
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               49,098     337,246      43,826     389,276
Structural Pipe & Tube                    24         157         (-)         (-)
Wire Drawn                            19,316      91,963      13,245      61,021
Sheets Hot Rolled                     13,921      29,959       6,199      10,852
Sheets Cold Rolled                   124,404     369,791      69,615     159,804
Strip - Hot Rolled                       891       2,482         258         908
Strip - Cold Rolled                   19,292      78,245      11,432      49,047
                                           

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.ht
ml.

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
July 2010 (CB-10-125)