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

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

Total Selected Commodities           523,289   2,361,846     388,296   1,566,135

Ingots And Steel For Castings         16,026      51,241       8,751      26,425
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             56,626     233,011      42,028     142,249
Wire Rods                             12,304      54,976       9,614      32,444
Structural Shapes Heavy                  951       5,214         864       4,005
Plates Cut Lengths                    36,248     159,566      20,742      80,328
Plates In Coils                       38,997     155,472      11,341      42,516
Bars - Hot Rolled                     17,491      93,912      10,954      47,424
Bars - Light Shaped                    4,629      20,029       3,888      13,535
Bars - Cold Finished                  50,621     265,997      34,468     151,757
Oil Country Goods                     16,715     116,279      17,577     110,811
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          67         474         (-)           4
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       3,420      17,520       1,031       4,125
Line Pipe - Not Specified                346       1,587          92         668
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               55,826     401,909      49,098     337,246
Structural Pipe & Tube                    39         318          24         157
Wire Drawn                            21,592     126,475      19,316      91,963
Sheets Hot Rolled                     17,377      33,088      13,921      29,959
Sheets Cold Rolled                   150,869     521,337     124,404     369,791
Strip - Hot Rolled                       826       1,780         891       2,482
Strip - Cold Rolled                   22,318     101,660      19,292      78,245
                                            

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
July 2011 (CB-11-141)