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

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

Total Selected Commodities           313,812   1,243,238     235,109   1,008,158

Ingots And Steel For Castings          7,436      21,810       2,675       6,104
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             33,249     110,963      28,133      82,184
Wire Rods                              8,269      26,981       3,891      12,082
Structural Shapes Heavy                  741       3,443         532       2,790
Plates Cut Lengths                    16,860      63,193       9,828      32,686
Plates In Coils                        8,902      31,591       5,000      13,026
Bars - Hot Rolled                      9,243      39,442       8,062      36,273
Bars - Light Shaped                    3,277      11,269       2,418       8,074
Bars - Cold Finished                  27,451     119,136      24,976     116,722
Oil Country Goods                     15,375      96,974      27,914     105,962
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete           0           4          34         292
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       1,003       3,868         568       2,748
Line Pipe - Not Specified                 63         461         706       9,236
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               38,591     266,221      37,583     342,011
Structural Pipe & Tube                    22         145           0           0
Wire Drawn                            15,889      74,124      11,039      51,534
Sheets Hot Rolled                     11,447      23,522       5,671       9,971
Sheets Cold Rolled                   100,025     285,062      56,094     132,613
Strip - Hot Rolled                       831       2,327         147         649
Strip - Cold Rolled                   15,138      62,702       9,839      43,199
                                           

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 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
June 2010 (CB-10-110)