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

Total Selected Commodities           775,580   3,512,895     606,118   2,442,273

Ingots And Steel For Castings         22,892      75,454      12,823      39,662
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             79,973     324,195      63,321     220,554
Wire Rods                             16,583      74,417      14,554      52,116
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,623       9,007       1,302       6,687
Plates Cut Lengths                    56,364     241,102      36,013     137,891
Plates In Coils                       61,314     241,513      18,164      67,316
Bars - Hot Rolled                     26,011     142,138      18,609      82,647
Bars - Light Shaped                    6,490      29,196       5,591      20,974
Bars - Cold Finished                  74,100     397,542      52,224     236,064
Oil Country Goods                     21,624     149,939      25,511     149,795
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete         118         967          47         350
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       5,441      30,226       1,106       4,659
Line Pipe - Not Specified                838       3,831         109         829
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               85,821     626,568      74,237     500,511
Structural Pipe & Tube                    70         635          28         179
Wire Drawn                            31,909     189,578      29,499     144,484
Sheets Hot Rolled                     27,922      56,185      22,324      47,815
Sheets Cold Rolled                   222,752     768,298     200,534     609,107
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,268       2,439       1,178       3,492
Strip - Cold Rolled                   32,466     149,664      28,945     117,141
                                           

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
October 2011 (CB-11-195)