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

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

Total Selected Commodities           176,600     694,062     153,046     667,274

Ingots And Steel For Castings          2,471       7,331       1,721       3,665
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             17,626      57,757      18,479      57,041
Wire Rods                              4,531      14,077       2,267       7,285
Structural Shapes Heavy                  330       1,595         345       2,020
Plates Cut Lengths                     9,894      34,604       7,485      24,095
Plates In Coils                        5,379      18,319       1,943       5,413
Bars - Hot Rolled                      4,641      19,291       4,701      21,983
Bars - Light Shaped                    2,092       7,099       1,378       5,609
Bars - Cold Finished                  14,696      62,741      15,737      75,395
Oil Country Goods                     10,910      67,181      22,054      76,946
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete         (-)         (-)          13          59
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet         852       2,971         375       1,670
Line Pipe - Not Specified                 52         372         479       7,805
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               22,409     159,980      24,376     222,067
Structural Pipe & Tube                    12          88         (-)         (-)
Wire Drawn                             9,309      42,274       6,653      32,883
Sheets Hot Rolled                      6,781      13,928       4,686       8,428
Sheets Cold Rolled                    55,287     147,389      33,865      85,272
Strip - Hot Rolled                       727       1,912          48         149
Strip - Cold Rolled                    8,602      35,154       6,443      29,487
                                            

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
April 2010 (CB-10-70)