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

Total Selected Commodities           933,526   4,210,641     769,389   3,117,254

Ingots And Steel For Castings         26,652      86,036      15,834      50,643
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             96,894     387,732      78,561     279,030
Wire Rods                             20,066      90,094      17,568      65,277
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,869      10,316       1,782      10,075
Plates Cut Lengths                    68,852     289,967      43,951     170,127
Plates In Coils                       76,577     290,440      36,513     131,990
Bars - Hot Rolled                     31,474     171,374      23,777     107,101
Bars - Light Shaped                    7,640      34,596       6,663      25,776
Bars - Cold Finished                  89,889     484,868      66,562     303,701
Oil Country Goods                     26,755     177,491      29,402     184,610
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete         196       1,529          87         604
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       6,617      37,073       1,457       6,927
Line Pipe - Not Specified              1,297       5,874         114         872
Stainless Pipe & Tubing              104,359     766,719      91,403     618,251
Structural Pipe & Tube                   147       1,390          29         186
Wire Drawn                            39,214     231,713      36,937     184,642
Sheets Hot Rolled                     33,880      71,911      27,285      58,301
Sheets Cold Rolled                   261,337     891,187     254,023     769,143
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,368       2,653       1,428       4,333
Strip - Cold Rolled                   38,446     177,676      36,013     145,665
                                            

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)