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

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

Total Selected Commodities           466,116   1,884,480     317,925   1,331,922

Ingots And Steel For Castings         10,045      30,500       4,077       9,710
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             50,611     174,069      37,961     108,517
Wire Rods                             11,191      39,446       5,874      17,592
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,070       5,174         644       3,280
Plates Cut Lengths                    26,676     103,770      13,616      43,813
Plates In Coils                       14,367      55,873       6,905      18,105
Bars - Hot Rolled                     13,692      59,845       9,926      44,633
Bars - Light Shaped                    4,804      17,219       3,118       9,717
Bars - Cold Finished                  40,663     180,946      32,815     149,087
Oil Country Goods                     19,032     117,222      30,594     127,455
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          28         266          34         292
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       1,051       4,258       1,109       5,164
Line Pipe - Not Specified                 94         682       1,533      16,552
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               58,009     393,948      50,035     448,440
Structural Pipe & Tube                    28         179         (-)         (-)
Wire Drawn                            22,656     108,908      15,584      70,172
Sheets Hot Rolled                     15,831      34,376       6,790      11,934
Sheets Cold Rolled                   152,011     460,697      83,262     189,706
Strip - Hot Rolled                       901       2,521         631       1,601
Strip - Cold Rolled                   23,358      94,579      13,420      56,151
                                            

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
August 2010 (CB-10-146)