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

                                January 2011            January 2010
                                Cumulative to           Cumulative to
                                Date - Final            Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities            84,626     357,536      56,609     214,381

Ingots And Steel For Castings          2,438       7,435         410       1,391
Blooms, Billets And Slabs              6,735      26,622       4,141      16,360
Wire Rods                              2,046       9,162       1,623       4,848
Structural Shapes Heavy                  146         904          42         172
Plates Cut Lengths                     5,374      23,473       3,684      11,520
Plates In Coils                        7,666      29,096       2,141       7,224
Bars - Hot Rolled                      2,233      12,374       1,609       6,837
Bars - Light Shaped                    1,025       4,099         524       1,845
Bars - Cold Finished                   7,221      35,044       3,873      16,869
Oil Country Goods                      4,485      26,369       3,729      10,139
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete           2          44           0           0
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet         163         858         793       2,587
Line Pipe - Not Specified                  1          12          33         231
Stainless Pipe & Tubing                8,759      55,800       7,450      55,931
Structural Pipe & Tube                     0           0           0          14
Wire Drawn                             3,509      19,805       3,222      13,977
Sheets Hot Rolled                      3,410       6,645       2,082       4,447
Sheets Cold Rolled                    25,883      83,747      17,682      46,590
Strip - Hot Rolled                       130         297         414       1,058
Strip - Cold Rolled                    3,400      15,752       3,154      12,342
                                            

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
February 2011 (CB-11-50)