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

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

Total Selected Commodities           259,892   1,100,274     252,124   1,095,062

Ingots And Steel For Castings          3,056       9,529       5,904      18,462
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             30,204     103,633      26,062     105,425
Wire Rods                              6,000      22,709       5,691      25,054
Structural Shapes Heavy                  660       3,328         561       3,146
Plates Cut Lengths                    21,993      81,233      16,511      74,318
Plates In Coils                       30,649      93,688      22,784      84,249
Bars - Hot Rolled                     10,875      52,584       7,993      41,548
Bars - Light Shaped                    1,483       6,203       2,770      11,634
Bars - Cold Finished                  25,940     131,833      24,385     122,346
Oil Country Goods                      5,045      31,739       8,959      50,239
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          74         411          53         344
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       1,814      13,758       1,058       5,151
Line Pipe - Not Specified                275       1,530           5          61
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               34,337     249,348      26,453     183,475
Structural Pipe & Tube                   298       2,989           1          30
Wire Drawn                            10,107      56,283      10,614      61,128
Sheets Hot Rolled                      9,395      23,128       7,008      13,601
Sheets Cold Rolled                    58,596     175,713      73,717     243,827
Strip - Hot Rolled                       662       1,990         389         860
Strip - Cold Rolled                    8,428      38,646      11,207      50,164
                                           

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
April 2012 (CB-12-91)