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

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

Total Selected Commodities           161,205     691,545     111,134     433,633

Ingots And Steel For Castings          3,922      12,207         918       3,036
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             15,258      61,093      10,217      34,687
Wire Rods                              3,877      16,969       3,013       9,307
Structural Shapes Heavy                  316       1,894         144         618
Plates Cut Lengths                    10,251      45,833       5,875      19,440
Plates In Coils                       13,049      49,041       3,603      12,587
Bars - Hot Rolled                      4,788      24,970       2,887      12,266
Bars - Light Shaped                    1,891       7,836       1,251       4,350
Bars - Cold Finished                  14,825      72,796       8,318      35,670
Oil Country Goods                      6,343      35,649       7,857      43,554
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          37         238         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet         661       3,146         825       2,828
Line Pipe - Not Specified                  1          12          43         327
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               17,540     119,739      13,630     102,274
Structural Pipe & Tube                   (-)         (-)           9          71
Wire Drawn                             6,800      38,805       6,061      26,832
Sheets Hot Rolled                      5,062       9,964       3,997       8,211
Sheets Cold Rolled                    49,457     159,626      36,315      93,901
Strip - Hot Rolled                       272         598         629       1,567
Strip - Cold Rolled                    6,853      31,130       5,543      22,107
                                            

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
March 2011 (CB-11-68)