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

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

Total Selected Commodities           432,395   1,936,445     313,812   1,243,238

Ingots And Steel For Castings         12,987      40,707       7,436      21,810
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             46,556     192,078      33,249     110,963
Wire Rods                             10,230      45,292       8,269      26,981
Structural Shapes Heavy                  822       4,497         741       3,443
Plates Cut Lengths                    29,195     127,681      16,860      63,193
Plates In Coils                       33,216     131,254       8,902      31,591
Bars - Hot Rolled                     14,468      77,534       9,243      39,442
Bars - Light Shaped                    4,151      17,830       3,277      11,269
Bars - Cold Finished                  41,936     216,367      27,451     119,136
Oil Country Goods                     14,692      99,813      15,375      96,974
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          63         448         (-)           4
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       2,698      13,455       1,003       3,868
Line Pipe - Not Specified                158         748          63         461
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               45,723     328,140      38,591     266,221
Structural Pipe & Tube                    11         105          22         145
Wire Drawn                            18,081     105,722      15,889      74,124
Sheets Hot Rolled                     14,305      27,130      11,447      23,522
Sheets Cold Rolled                   124,141     421,975     100,025     285,062
Strip - Hot Rolled                       649       1,533         831       2,327
Strip - Cold Rolled                   18,313      84,136      15,138      62,702
                                           

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
June 2011 (CB-11-127)