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

                                January 2010            January 2009
                                Cumulative to           Cumulative to
                                Date - Final            Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities            56,609     214,381      62,401     283,110

Ingots And Steel For Castings            410       1,391         390       1,097
Blooms, Billets And Slabs              4,141      16,360       6,543      22,402
Wire Rods                              1,623       4,848         998       3,501
Structural Shapes Heavy                   42         172         165       1,056
Plates Cut Lengths                     3,684      11,520       4,428      13,529
Plates In Coils                        2,141       7,224         809       2,343
Bars - Hot Rolled                      1,609       6,837       1,919       9,524
Bars - Light Shaped                      524       1,845         493       2,426
Bars - Cold Finished                   3,873      16,869       5,389      27,023
Oil Country Goods                      3,729      10,139       9,821      40,150
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete         (-)         (-)         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet         793       2,587          86         536
Line Pipe - Not Specified                 33         231         462       7,419
Stainless Pipe & Tubing                7,450      55,931       9,989      86,965
Structural Pipe & Tube                   (-)          14         (-)         (-)
Wire Drawn                             3,222      13,977       2,613      12,729
Sheets Hot Rolled                      2,082       4,447       2,115       3,874
Sheets Cold Rolled                    17,682      46,590      13,995      38,265
Strip - Hot Rolled                       414       1,058          14          55
Strip - Cold Rolled                    3,154      12,342       2,175      10,216
                                           

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.html.

CONTACT:  For more information, contact Nick Orsini (301-763-6959) or Janet Freas
(301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau.

SOURCE:  U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary
February 2010 (CB-10-35)