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

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

Total Selected Commodities           689,119   2,788,510     623,129   2,812,171

Ingots And Steel For Castings         11,640      35,403      18,453      59,847
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             77,256     256,798      66,283     270,926
Wire Rods                             15,825      62,944      14,533      65,664
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,159       5,887       1,211       6,647
Plates Cut Lengths                    61,258     211,451      44,260     192,981
Plates In Coils                       68,011     208,715      52,402     208,821
Bars - Hot Rolled                     23,599     117,097      20,831     112,581
Bars - Light Shaped                    3,469      13,916       5,149      22,518
Bars - Cold Finished                  61,626     316,411      58,985     314,028
Oil Country Goods                     13,765      94,432      18,290     124,560
Line Pipe > 16 Inches In Diamete          96         566          77         546
Line Pipe <= 16 Inches In Diamet       4,962      30,667       3,826      19,859
Line Pipe - Not Specified                989       4,537         428       1,969
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               77,707     566,779      65,836     477,218
Structural Pipe & Tube                   315       3,332          52         406
Wire Drawn                            25,650     139,998      25,194     149,206
Sheets Hot Rolled                     52,904     127,426      21,535      41,433
Sheets Cold Rolled                   164,627     486,555     179,119     622,538
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,589       4,732         934       1,954
Strip - Cold Rolled                   22,671     100,863      25,732     118,469
                                           

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
July 2012 (CB-12-130)