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

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

Total Selected Commodities           252,124   1,095,062     176,600     694,062

Ingots And Steel For Castings          5,904      18,462       2,471       7,331
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             26,062     105,425      17,626      57,757
Wire Rods                              5,691      25,054       4,531      14,077
Structural Shapes Heavy                  561       3,146         330       1,595
Plates Cut Lengths                    16,511      74,318       9,894      34,604
Plates In Coils                       22,784      84,249       5,379      18,319
Bars - Hot Rolled                      7,993      41,548       4,641      19,291
Bars - Light Shaped                    2,770      11,634       2,092       7,099
Bars - Cold Finished                  24,385     122,346      14,696      62,741
Oil Country Goods                      8,959      50,239      10,910      67,181
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          53         344         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       1,058       5,151         852       2,971
Line Pipe - Not Specified                  5          61          52         372
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               26,453     183,475      22,409     159,980
Structural Pipe & Tube                     1          30          12          88
Wire Drawn                            10,614      61,128       9,309      42,274
Sheets Hot Rolled                      7,008      13,601       6,781      13,928
Sheets Cold Rolled                    73,717     243,827      55,287     147,389
Strip - Hot Rolled                       389         860         727       1,912
Strip - Cold Rolled                   11,207      50,164       8,602      35,154
                                            

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)