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

Total Selected Commodities         1,063,788   4,307,181     933,526   4,210,641

Ingots And Steel For Castings         18,090      55,183      26,652      86,036
Blooms, Billets And Slabs            129,442     407,185      96,894     387,732
Wire Rods                             23,237      89,852      20,066      90,094
Structural Shapes Heavy                2,016       9,673       1,869      10,316
Plates Cut Lengths                    90,469     313,602      68,852     289,967
Plates In Coils                       87,218     265,596      76,577     290,440
Bars - Hot Rolled                     33,446     163,005      31,474     171,374
Bars - Light Shaped                    6,238      23,912       7,640      34,596
Bars - Cold Finished                  92,189     470,714      89,889     484,868
Oil Country Goods                     22,281     158,241      26,755     177,491
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete         160       1,033         196       1,529
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       8,673      49,957       6,617      37,073
Line Pipe - Not Specified              2,475      12,014       1,297       5,874
Stainless Pipe & Tubing              121,362     961,446     104,359     766,719
Structural Pipe & Tube                   448       4,899         147       1,390
Wire Drawn                            41,091     223,517      39,214     231,713
Sheets Hot Rolled                     81,610     182,790      33,880      71,911
Sheets Cold Rolled                   266,683     757,810     261,337     891,187
Strip - Hot Rolled                     2,288       7,003       1,368       2,653
Strip - Cold Rolled                   34,373     149,747      38,446     177,676
                                           

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
December 2012 (CB13-11)