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

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

Total Selected Commodities         1,007,625   4,547,221     848,817   3,450,036

Ingots And Steel For Castings         27,095      87,755      18,146      57,740
Blooms, Billets And Slabs            105,133     417,149      83,165     297,639
Wire Rods                             21,692      96,739      19,649      73,491
Structural Shapes Heavy                2,053      11,362       1,966      11,172
Plates Cut Lengths                    75,629     312,915      49,077     192,159
Plates In Coils                       82,013     308,526      39,483     142,860
Bars - Hot Rolled                     34,597     186,695      26,913     122,433
Bars - Light Shaped                    8,323      37,385       7,154      27,814
Bars - Cold Finished                  98,159     528,451      74,085     340,266
Oil Country Goods                     30,191     197,460      34,317     207,313
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete         218       1,758          95         674
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       7,583      43,093       1,584       7,790
Line Pipe - Not Specified              1,504       6,901         135       1,078
Stainless Pipe & Tubing              115,120     853,465      99,653     675,028
Structural Pipe & Tube                   148       1,397          29         191
Wire Drawn                            42,094     247,735      40,644     204,891
Sheets Hot Rolled                     35,340      74,812      31,546      66,656
Sheets Cold Rolled                   278,232     941,097     280,211     855,273
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,495       2,994       1,530       4,649
Strip - Cold Rolled                   41,004     189,532      39,433     160,920
                                            

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 Freas (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau.

SOURCE:  U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary
January 2012 (CB-12-32)