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 2012             August 2011
                                Cumulative to           Cumulative to
                                Date - Final            Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities           797,844   3,280,093     712,185   3,221,202

Ingots And Steel For Castings         14,029      42,531      21,894      71,613
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             85,361     284,648      73,850     299,887
Wire Rods                             17,260      69,029      15,537      70,286
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,266       6,379       1,390       7,559
Plates Cut Lengths                    68,864     238,553      50,954     221,009
Plates In Coils                       76,437     231,859      60,035     236,611
Bars - Hot Rolled                     26,052     129,393      23,512     128,512
Bars - Light Shaped                    4,277      16,853       5,832      26,045
Bars - Cold Finished                  70,090     359,724      67,295     360,694
Oil Country Goods                     15,420     105,401      20,967     145,119
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete         102         613          89         762
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       6,109      36,622       4,673      25,157
Line Pipe - Not Specified              1,536       8,003         647       2,913
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               90,208     737,403      77,017     560,515
Structural Pipe & Tube                   373       3,872          60         518
Wire Drawn                            29,995     162,873      28,681     170,844
Sheets Hot Rolled                     68,485     158,834      26,857      54,161
Sheets Cold Rolled                   194,526     568,298     202,547     702,043
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,763       5,141       1,091       2,182
Strip - Cold Rolled                   25,691     114,065      29,256     134,772
                                           

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
Maria Iseman (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau.

SOURCE:  U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary
September 2012 (CB-12-202)