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 2003                 June 2002
                                      Cumulative to             Cumulative to
                                      Date - Final              Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities           366,703     726,184     462,556     783,570

Ingots And Steel For Castings         16,467      21,360      15,863      17,960
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             73,875     103,544     157,953     173,147
Wire Rods                             17,669      28,101      26,800      43,390
Structural Shapes Heavy                  812       2,511       1,000       2,977
Plates Cut Lengths                    11,853      20,929      17,574      29,112
Plates In Coils                        9,220      15,787      11,692      13,667
Bars - Hot Rolled                      7,101      14,127       9,429      19,656
Bars - Light Shaped                    4,673      10,190       4,111       9,212
Bars - Cold Finished                  28,800      64,126      30,742      71,877
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               39,514     140,576      37,759     138,856
Wire Drawn                            15,956      48,465      14,026      44,533
Sheets Hot Rolled                      2,937       4,453       9,230       8,388
Sheets Cold Rolled                   117,893     193,648     110,515     161,944
Strip - Hot Rolled                       164         393         194         361
Strip - Cold Rolled                   19,770      57,972      15,669      48,490
                                           
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.html.

CONTACT:  For more information, contact Haydn R. Mearkle (301-763-2246) or Nick
Orsini (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau.

SOURCE:  U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary
July 2003 (CB-03-129)