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 2004                 June 2003
                                      Cumulative to             Cumulative to
                                      Date - Final              Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities           412,738   1,090,893     366,703     726,184

Ingots And Steel For Castings            963       1,802      16,467      21,360
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             77,376     161,399      73,875     103,544
Wire Rods                             15,192      35,626      17,669      28,101
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,469       4,437         812       2,511
Plates Cut Lengths                    15,457      36,692      11,853      20,929
Plates In Coils                       19,287      52,685       9,220      15,787
Bars - Hot Rolled                     10,829      30,663       7,101      14,127
Bars - Light Shaped                    7,313      18,470       4,673      10,190
Bars - Cold Finished                  27,592      77,005      28,800      64,126
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               53,037     214,833      39,514     140,576
Wire Drawn                            18,411      66,867      15,956      48,465
Sheets Hot Rolled                      3,156       6,187       2,937       4,453
Sheets Cold Rolled                   144,247     323,971     117,893     193,648
Strip - Hot Rolled                       542       1,277         164         393
Strip - Cold Rolled                   17,867      58,980      19,770      57,972
                                           
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 2004 (CB-04-139)