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

Total Selected Commodities           879,703   3,591,275     775,580   3,512,895

Ingots And Steel For Castings         14,479      44,519      22,892      75,454
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             95,057     312,725      79,973     324,195
Wire Rods                             19,538      76,332      16,583      74,417
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,426       7,045       1,623       9,007
Plates Cut Lengths                    78,723     269,774      56,364     241,102
Plates In Coils                       79,321     240,727      61,314     241,513
Bars - Hot Rolled                     28,458     138,873      26,011     142,138
Bars - Light Shaped                    5,040      19,658       6,490      29,196
Bars - Cold Finished                  76,432     391,160      74,100     397,542
Oil Country Goods                     16,290     112,404      21,624     149,939
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete         111         711         118         967
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       6,924      41,202       5,441      30,226
Line Pipe - Not Specified              1,731       8,831         838       3,831
Stainless Pipe & Tubing              101,138     812,209      85,821     626,568
Structural Pipe & Tube                   380       3,954          70         635
Wire Drawn                            33,775     183,888      31,909     189,578
Sheets Hot Rolled                     73,063     166,978      27,922      56,185
Sheets Cold Rolled                   217,658     629,431     222,752     768,298
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,952       5,494       1,268       2,439
Strip - Cold Rolled                   28,206     125,361      32,466     149,664
                                           

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
October 2012 (CB-12-220)