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 April 2004 April 2003 Cumulative to Cumulative to Date - Final Date - Final Commodity Grouping Quantity Value Quantity Value Total Selected Commodities 251,307 643,439 244,419 481,534 Ingots And Steel For Castings 777 1,408 11,013 14,783 Blooms, Billets And Slabs 40,115 81,500 42,566 58,911 Wire Rods 9,150 20,226 12,826 20,353 Structural Shapes Heavy 999 2,669 444 1,303 Plates Cut Lengths 10,116 23,279 8,363 14,499 Plates In Coils 9,437 24,117 6,137 10,278 Bars - Hot Rolled 6,429 18,364 4,748 9,351 Bars - Light Shaped 4,853 11,322 3,448 7,470 Bars - Cold Finished 17,503 46,711 19,403 43,050 Stainless Pipe & Tubing 34,029 129,220 25,760 93,208 Wire Drawn 12,792 43,942 10,910 32,192 Sheets Hot Rolled 1,891 3,827 2,017 3,118 Sheets Cold Rolled 91,091 197,904 82,119 131,308 Strip - Hot Rolled 239 457 132 317 Strip - Cold Rolled 11,887 38,491 14,534 41,393 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 May 2004 (CB-04-100)