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

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

Total Selected Commodities           769,389   3,117,254     503,735   2,049,824

Ingots And Steel For Castings         15,834      50,643       6,550      17,452
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             78,561     279,030      55,676     162,701
Wire Rods                             17,568      65,277      10,594      31,683
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,782      10,075       1,123       5,009
Plates Cut Lengths                    43,951     170,127      29,531      97,618
Plates In Coils                       36,513     131,990      11,263      33,099
Bars - Hot Rolled                     23,777     107,101      15,065      65,561
Bars - Light Shaped                    6,663      25,776       5,777      18,131
Bars - Cold Finished                  66,562     303,701      47,086     212,341
Oil Country Goods                     29,402     184,610      39,739     178,673
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          87         604         378       3,175
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       1,457       6,927       1,353       6,049
Line Pipe - Not Specified                114         872       1,551      16,700
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               91,403     618,251      74,341     631,941
Structural Pipe & Tube                    29         186         (-)         (-)
Wire Drawn                            36,937     184,642      25,828     113,352
Sheets Hot Rolled                     27,285      58,301      10,557      19,290
Sheets Cold Rolled                   254,023     769,143     145,124     345,832
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,428       4,333       1,019       2,672
Strip - Cold Rolled                   36,013     145,665      21,180      88,546
                                            

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
December 2010 (CB-11-14)