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

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

Total Selected Commodities           606,118   2,442,273     399,616   1,636,221

Ingots And Steel For Castings         12,823      39,662       5,032      12,602
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             63,321     220,554      46,454     133,436
Wire Rods                             14,554      52,116       7,866      23,063
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,302       6,687         868       4,021
Plates Cut Lengths                    36,013     137,891      19,783      63,162
Plates In Coils                       18,164      67,316       8,172      21,894
Bars - Hot Rolled                     18,609      82,647      11,871      52,463
Bars - Light Shaped                    5,591      20,974       4,254      12,983
Bars - Cold Finished                  52,224     236,064      39,475     176,714
Oil Country Goods                     25,511     149,795      33,838     145,423
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          47         350          58         515
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       1,106       4,659       1,186       5,520
Line Pipe - Not Specified                109         829       1,548      16,677
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               74,237     500,511      61,442     536,222
Structural Pipe & Tube                    28         179         (-)         (-)
Wire Drawn                            29,499     144,484      20,234      88,804
Sheets Hot Rolled                     22,324      47,815       7,722      13,832
Sheets Cold Rolled                   200,534     609,107     111,806     255,595
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,178       3,492         776       2,102
Strip - Cold Rolled                   28,945     117,141      17,230      71,194
                                            

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)