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

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

Total Selected Commodities           468,065   1,947,978     432,395   1,936,445

Ingots And Steel For Castings          6,337      19,630      12,987      40,707
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             54,590     184,073      46,556     192,078
Wire Rods                             10,772      41,587      10,230      45,292
Structural Shapes Heavy                  837       4,174         822       4,497
Plates Cut Lengths                    39,044     141,641      29,195     127,681
Plates In Coils                       49,574     154,550      33,216     131,254
Bars - Hot Rolled                     17,265      85,237      14,468      77,534
Bars - Light Shaped                    2,326       9,476       4,151      17,830
Bars - Cold Finished                  44,106     226,397      41,936     216,367
Oil Country Goods                     10,686      73,526      14,692      99,813
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          84         501          63         448
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       2,958      20,227       2,698      13,455
Line Pipe - Not Specified                465       2,319         158         748
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               56,927     416,216      45,723     328,140
Structural Pipe & Tube                   299       3,008          11         105
Wire Drawn                            18,109      98,888      18,081     105,722
Sheets Hot Rolled                     29,953      72,584      14,305      27,130
Sheets Cold Rolled                   107,553     321,916     124,141     421,975
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,172       3,637         649       1,533
Strip - Cold Rolled                   15,007      68,390      18,313      84,136
                                           

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
June 2012 (CB-12-130)