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

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

Total Selected Commodities           246,992     971,244     195,089     846,267

Ingots And Steel For Castings          5,294      15,407       2,018       4,266
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             25,736      83,255      23,066      69,767
Wire Rods                              6,640      21,167       3,282      10,552
Structural Shapes Heavy                  594       2,689         440       2,322
Plates Cut Lengths                    13,854      50,015       8,722      28,933
Plates In Coils                        7,142      25,148       3,302       8,826
Bars - Hot Rolled                      6,883      29,118       6,394      28,504
Bars - Light Shaped                    2,718       9,217       1,826       6,707
Bars - Cold Finished                  21,003      89,799      20,517      97,497
Oil Country Goods                     14,000      85,777      25,242      93,264
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete         (-)         (-)          34         290
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet         932       3,403         500       2,352
Line Pipe - Not Specified                 57         423         479       7,805
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               30,738     215,128      31,542     286,429
Structural Pipe & Tube                    12          88         (-)         (-)
Wire Drawn                            12,761      58,645       8,787      42,156
Sheets Hot Rolled                      8,264      17,479       5,432       9,524
Sheets Cold Rolled                    77,887     214,515      45,133     109,676
Strip - Hot Rolled                       808       2,221         134         604
Strip - Cold Rolled                   11,669      47,749       8,238      36,793
                                           

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
May 2010 (CB-10-91)