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

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

Total Selected Commodities           166,000     698,070     161,205     691,545

Ingots And Steel For Castings          1,955       6,084       3,922      12,207
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             18,815      62,733      15,258      61,093
Wire Rods                              3,879      14,322       3,877      16,969
Structural Shapes Heavy                  496       2,457         316       1,894
Plates Cut Lengths                    14,342      51,180      10,251      45,833
Plates In Coils                       20,594      61,398      13,049      49,041
Bars - Hot Rolled                      6,453      30,696       4,788      24,970
Bars - Light Shaped                    1,031       4,420       1,891       7,836
Bars - Cold Finished                  15,687      79,023      14,825      72,796
Oil Country Goods                      2,761      16,202       6,343      35,649
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          74         408          37         238
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       1,410      11,279         661       3,146
Line Pipe - Not Specified                229       1,235           1          12
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               23,160     170,365      17,540     119,739
Structural Pipe & Tube                    99       1,539         (-)         (-)
Wire Drawn                             6,592      36,937       6,800      38,805
Sheets Hot Rolled                      6,204      14,858       5,062       9,964
Sheets Cold Rolled                    36,180     106,818      49,457     159,626
Strip - Hot Rolled                       440       1,211         272         598
Strip - Cold Rolled                    5,599      24,904       6,853      31,130
                                            

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
March 2012 (CB-12-64)