Not Seasonally Adjusted
 
     Exhibit 2b. U.S. Imports For Consumption of Stainless Steel Products:
                                (Census Basis)
 
            Quantity in metric tons/value In thousands of dollars.
                 Details may not equal totals due to rounding.
 
                                    June 2002               June 2001
                                    Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                    Date - Final            Date - Final
   Commodity
   Grouping                       Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
 
Total Selected Commodities          462,556     783,570     426,561     835,566
 
Ingots And Steel For Castings        15,863      17,960      11,563      14,754
Blooms, Billets And Slabs           157,953     173,147     125,716     139,480
Wire Rods                            26,800      43,390      27,767      51,708
Structural Shapes Heavy               1,000       2,977       1,306       3,870
Plates Cut Lengths                   17,574      29,112      16,048      29,741
Plates In Coils                      11,692      13,667       6,230       9,775
Bars - Hot Rolled                     9,429      19,656      13,959      30,742
Bars - Light Shaped                   4,111       9,212       4,432      10,016
Bars - Cold Finished                 30,742      71,877      42,840     110,148
Stainless Pipe & Tubing              37,759     138,856      38,591     153,381
Wire Drawn                           14,026      44,533      14,956      54,041
Sheets Hot Rolled                     9,230       8,388       6,212       8,544
Sheets Cold Rolled                  110,515     161,944     103,194     171,358
Strip - Hot Rolled                      194         361         438         833
Strip - Cold Rolled                  15,669      48,490      13,308      47,177
 
CONTACT: For more information, contact Haydn R. Mearkle (301-763-2246) or Nick
         Orsini (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U. S. Census Bureau.
 
NOTE:  For information on more detailed data available, please see record
       titled "MORE DETAILED FOREIGN TRADE DATA  AVAILABLE."