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

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

Total Selected Commodities           542,980   2,185,389     356,304   1,468,714

Ingots And Steel For Castings         11,684      35,639       4,828      11,975
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             56,737     197,152      42,572     120,959
Wire Rods                             13,146      46,929       6,665      19,586
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,197       5,854         783       3,732
Plates Cut Lengths                    32,197     123,755      15,414      49,011
Plates In Coils                       16,921      63,146       7,174      18,738
Bars - Hot Rolled                     16,547      73,100      10,918      48,490
Bars - Light Shaped                    5,161      18,847       3,631      11,099
Bars - Cold Finished                  47,110     212,016      36,043     163,719
Oil Country Goods                     23,167     136,044      31,847     133,492
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          30         276          58         515
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       1,069       4,404       1,131       5,283
Line Pipe - Not Specified                109         829       1,548      16,677
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               66,112     445,104      55,612     488,839
Structural Pipe & Tube                    28         179         (-)         (-)
Wire Drawn                            25,958     126,467      17,794      79,069
Sheets Hot Rolled                     19,954      42,753       7,314      12,974
Sheets Cold Rolled                   177,965     541,787      96,985     219,343
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,133       3,399         668       1,694
Strip - Cold Rolled                   26,757     107,711      15,318      63,520
                                           

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
September 2010 (CB-10-160)