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 2011             August 2010
                                Cumulative to           Cumulative to
                                Date - Final            Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities           712,185   3,221,202     542,980   2,185,389

Ingots And Steel For Castings         21,894      71,613      11,684      35,639
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             73,850     299,887      56,737     197,152
Wire Rods                             15,537      70,286      13,146      46,929
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,390       7,559       1,197       5,854
Plates Cut Lengths                    50,954     221,009      32,197     123,755
Plates In Coils                       60,035     236,611      16,921      63,146
Bars - Hot Rolled                     23,512     128,512      16,547      73,100
Bars - Light Shaped                    5,832      26,045       5,161      18,847
Bars - Cold Finished                  67,295     360,694      47,110     212,016
Oil Country Goods                     20,967     145,119      23,167     136,044
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          89         762          30         276
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       4,673      25,157       1,069       4,404
Line Pipe - Not Specified                647       2,913         109         829
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               77,017     560,515      66,112     445,104
Structural Pipe & Tube                    60         518          28         179
Wire Drawn                            28,681     170,844      25,958     126,467
Sheets Hot Rolled                     26,857      54,161      19,954      42,753
Sheets Cold Rolled                   202,547     702,043     177,965     541,787
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,091       2,182       1,133       3,399
Strip - Cold Rolled                   29,256     134,772      26,757     107,711
                                           

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 Matthew Przybocki (301-763-3148) or
Janet Freas (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau.

SOURCE:  U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary
August 2011 (CB-11-162)