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

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

Total Selected Commodities           688,185   2,777,463     451,237   1,844,646

Ingots And Steel For Castings         13,569      42,244       5,913      15,480
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             71,257     250,258      51,463     149,504
Wire Rods                             15,843      57,932       9,042      26,455
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,382       7,180         925       4,224
Plates Cut Lengths                    40,379     155,356      25,412      82,368
Plates In Coils                       30,377     109,940       9,360      26,210
Bars - Hot Rolled                     20,845      93,359      13,526      58,894
Bars - Light Shaped                    6,048      23,257       5,070      15,682
Bars - Cold Finished                  59,351     268,908      42,835     192,458
Oil Country Goods                     27,551     166,581      35,236     162,626
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          76         501         378       3,175
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       1,209       5,302       1,287       5,835
Line Pipe - Not Specified                112         857       1,550      16,693
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               82,893     560,653      68,070     583,973
Structural Pipe & Tube                    28         179         (-)         (-)
Wire Drawn                            32,990     163,361      23,192     101,255
Sheets Hot Rolled                     24,566      52,412       8,825      15,926
Sheets Cold Rolled                   226,149     684,903     129,058     301,704
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,295       3,753         921       2,485
Strip - Cold Rolled                   32,266     130,524      19,174      79,698
                                            

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
November 2010 (CB-10-193)