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

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

Total Selected Commodities           968,589   3,944,079     852,424   3,861,574

Ingots And Steel For Castings         15,934      49,180      25,536      82,524
Blooms, Billets And Slabs            108,082     348,576      88,619     355,926
Wire Rods                             21,689      84,024      17,991      81,150
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,703       8,314       1,805       9,990
Plates Cut Lengths                    84,894     292,692      61,498     262,264
Plates In Coils                       81,213     246,663      64,549     253,759
Bars - Hot Rolled                     30,992     150,783      28,808     157,963
Bars - Light Shaped                    5,632      21,837       7,022      31,656
Bars - Cold Finished                  85,153     435,282      82,124     442,202
Oil Country Goods                     19,563     135,495      23,466     160,200
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete         119         796         177       1,350
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       7,590      44,578       6,049      33,355
Line Pipe - Not Specified              2,105      10,465       1,041       4,740
Stainless Pipe & Tubing              111,711     890,591      95,619     702,806
Structural Pipe & Tube                   436       4,760          96         870
Wire Drawn                            37,612     203,986      35,258     208,911
Sheets Hot Rolled                     76,920     174,915      32,341      67,978
Sheets Cold Rolled                   244,279     698,839     242,998     835,426
Strip - Hot Rolled                     2,068       5,753       1,345       2,584
Strip - Cold Rolled                   30,894     136,551      36,082     165,919
                                           

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
November2012 (CB12-253)