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

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

Total Selected Commodities           111,134     433,633     105,813     461,175

Ingots And Steel For Castings            918       3,036         437       1,297
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             10,217      34,687      13,600      42,824
Wire Rods                              3,013       9,307       1,582       5,355
Structural Shapes Heavy                  144         618         237       1,464
Plates Cut Lengths                     5,875      19,440       6,364      20,653
Plates In Coils                        3,603      12,587       1,575       4,360
Bars - Hot Rolled                      2,887      12,266       3,069      15,208
Bars - Light Shaped                    1,251       4,350         697       3,139
Bars - Cold Finished                   8,318      35,670      10,223      50,014
Oil Country Goods                      7,857      43,554      15,161      53,913
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete         (-)         (-)           1           7
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet         825       2,828         369       1,630
Line Pipe - Not Specified                 43         327         462       7,419
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               13,630     102,274      16,531     144,420
Structural Pipe & Tube                     9          71         (-)         (-)
Wire Drawn                             6,061      26,832       4,556      22,519
Sheets Hot Rolled                      3,997       8,211       3,451       6,214
Sheets Cold Rolled                    36,315      93,901      23,490      61,963
Strip - Hot Rolled                       629       1,567          21          71
Strip - Cold Rolled                    5,543      22,107       3,986      18,703
                                            

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
March 2010 (CB-10-56)