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 December 2003 December 2002 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 724,870 1,491,347 853,286 1,516,734 Ingots And Steel For Castings 26,152 34,049 26,632 31,985 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 139,874 207,515 238,080 273,862 Wire Rods 29,596 49,096 48,789 78,282 Structural Shapes Heavy 1,887 5,701 2,739 7,277 Plates Cut Lengths 23,435 44,197 36,568 60,854 Plates In Coils 25,478 44,838 23,614 30,377 Bars - Hot Rolled 13,188 27,160 17,154 35,515 Bars - Light Shaped 10,038 21,250 12,343 25,765 Bars - Cold Finished 51,091 117,166 64,113 144,825 Stainless Pipe & Tubing 86,368 309,023 75,589 274,422 Wire Drawn 31,122 95,998 30,031 92,116 Sheets Hot Rolled 11,630 15,946 14,642 15,012 Sheets Cold Rolled 237,366 408,026 231,466 350,566 Strip - Hot Rolled 370 831 346 659 Strip - Cold Rolled 37,275 110,551 31,180 95,219 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 January 2004 (CB-04-28)