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

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

Total Selected Commodities           848,817   3,450,036     559,953   2,287,332

Ingots And Steel For Castings         18,146      57,740       7,269      19,935
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             83,165     297,639      62,914     184,509
Wire Rods                             19,649      73,491      11,856      35,817
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,966      11,172       1,337       5,800
Plates Cut Lengths                    49,077     192,159      33,885     113,421
Plates In Coils                       39,483     142,860      12,927      38,892
Bars - Hot Rolled                     26,913     122,433      17,243      75,159
Bars - Light Shaped                    7,154      27,814       6,351      20,250
Bars - Cold Finished                  74,085     340,266      51,284     231,086
Oil Country Goods                     34,317     207,313      41,699     198,418
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          95         674         394       3,198
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       1,584       7,790       1,392       6,325
Line Pipe - Not Specified                135       1,078       1,573      16,909
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               99,653     675,028      81,297     693,429
Structural Pipe & Tube                    29         191         (-)         (-)
Wire Drawn                            40,644     204,891      28,838     126,338
Sheets Hot Rolled                     31,546      66,656      12,200      22,669
Sheets Cold Rolled                   280,211     855,273     162,514     391,663
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,530       4,649       1,210       3,224
Strip - Cold Rolled                   39,433     160,920      23,768     100,289
                                           

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 Matthew Przybocki (301-763-3148) or Janet Fre
as (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau.

SOURCE:  U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary
January 2011 (CB-11-30)