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

                                January 2012            January 2011
                                Cumulative to           Cumulative to
                                Date - Final            Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities            88,960     368,537      84,626     357,536

Ingots And Steel For Castings            930       2,916       2,438       7,435
Blooms, Billets And Slabs              8,319      26,802       6,735      26,622
Wire Rods                              1,707       6,497       2,046       9,162
Structural Shapes Heavy                  253       1,207         146         904
Plates Cut Lengths                     7,504      26,514       5,374      23,473
Plates In Coils                       12,861      38,490       7,666      29,096
Bars - Hot Rolled                      3,456      16,755       2,233      12,374
Bars - Light Shaped                      634       2,791       1,025       4,099
Bars - Cold Finished                   9,012      45,734       7,221      35,044
Oil Country Goods                        473       2,561       4,485      26,369
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          73         404           2          44
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet         663       6,206         163         858
Line Pipe - Not Specified                127         661           1          12
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               13,787      94,460       8,759      55,800
Structural Pipe & Tube                    83       1,378           0           0
Wire Drawn                             3,461      19,258       3,509      19,805
Sheets Hot Rolled                      2,966       6,838       3,410       6,645
Sheets Cold Rolled                    19,494      56,552      25,883      83,747
Strip - Hot Rolled                       275         829         130         297
Strip - Cold Rolled                    2,882      11,686       3,400      15,752
                                           

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
February 2012 (CB-02-xxx)