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

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

Total Selected Commodities           338,366   1,493,321     246,992     971,244

Ingots And Steel For Castings         10,295      32,013       5,294      15,407
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             36,336     149,570      25,736      83,255
Wire Rods                              7,822      33,970       6,640      21,167
Structural Shapes Heavy                  733       3,966         594       2,689
Plates Cut Lengths                    21,912      99,008      13,854      50,015
Plates In Coils                       28,509     109,784       7,142      25,148
Bars - Hot Rolled                     11,016      58,892       6,883      29,118
Bars - Light Shaped                    3,527      14,902       2,718       9,217
Bars - Cold Finished                  32,922     166,917      21,003      89,799
Oil Country Goods                     10,502      62,393      14,000      85,777
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          55         354         (-)         (-)
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       1,930       9,306         932       3,403
Line Pipe - Not Specified                 48         250          57         423
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               36,512     256,713      30,738     215,128
Structural Pipe & Tube                     2          39          12          88
Wire Drawn                            14,018      81,740      12,761      58,645
Sheets Hot Rolled                      9,324      17,801       8,264      17,479
Sheets Cold Rolled                    97,433     326,196      77,887     214,515
Strip - Hot Rolled                       471         995         808       2,221
Strip - Cold Rolled                   14,998      68,512      11,669      47,749
                                           

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
May 2011 (CB-11-111)