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 March 2004 March 2003 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 184,416 456,422 180,132 351,451 Ingots And Steel For Castings 594 939 8,296 11,111 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 32,442 63,850 30,702 42,048 Wire Rods 6,032 12,779 9,493 15,062 Structural Shapes Heavy 794 1,998 307 860 Plates Cut Lengths 7,610 17,224 6,280 10,807 Plates In Coils 6,483 15,683 4,846 7,835 Bars - Hot Rolled 4,728 13,233 3,165 6,133 Bars - Light Shaped 3,944 8,942 2,607 5,670 Bars - Cold Finished 12,095 31,499 13,873 30,609 Stainless Pipe & Tubing 24,673 93,672 19,356 70,479 Wire Drawn 8,974 29,670 7,738 22,615 Sheets Hot Rolled 1,385 2,595 1,277 1,706 Sheets Cold Rolled 65,589 136,026 61,491 96,085 Strip - Hot Rolled 197 346 97 240 Strip - Cold Rolled 8,876 27,966 10,603 30,191 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 April 2004 (CB-04-76)