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

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

Total Selected Commodities           354,348   1,487,259     338,366   1,493,321

Ingots And Steel For Castings          4,410      13,718      10,295      32,013
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             39,496     136,451      36,336     149,570
Wire Rods                              7,955      30,349       7,822      33,970
Structural Shapes Heavy                  732       3,649         733       3,966
Plates Cut Lengths                    29,174     108,815      21,912      99,008
Plates In Coils                       40,845     126,794      28,509     109,784
Bars - Hot Rolled                     14,250      69,970      11,016      58,892
Bars - Light Shaped                    1,777       7,420       3,527      14,902
Bars - Cold Finished                  34,955     179,293      32,922     166,917
Oil Country Goods                      6,827      43,187      10,502      62,393
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          84         501          55         354
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       2,323      16,216       1,930       9,306
Line Pipe - Not Specified                400       2,016          48         250
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               44,132     321,893      36,512     256,713
Structural Pipe & Tube                   299       3,008           2          39
Wire Drawn                            14,117      77,260      14,018      81,740
Sheets Hot Rolled                     18,169      44,650       9,324      17,801
Sheets Cold Rolled                    81,936     246,652      97,433     326,196
Strip - Hot Rolled                       869       2,708         471         995
Strip - Cold Rolled                   11,598      52,708      14,998      68,512
                                           

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

SOURCE:  U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary
May 2012 (CB-12-110)