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
                                           

                                      February 2005             February 2004
                                      Cumulative to             Cumulative to
                                      Date - Final              Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities           161,961     515,113     120,114     282,644

Ingots And Steel For Castings          4,112       8,799         325         550
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             22,582      60,506      24,490      46,498
Wire Rods                              7,246      18,987       3,784       7,690
Structural Shapes Heavy                  255         990         330         861
Plates Cut Lengths                     5,881      19,003       4,487       9,687
Plates In Coils                        4,302      12,471       3,787       8,329
Bars - Hot Rolled                      3,395      13,460       2,473       6,251
Bars - Light Shaped                    2,095       6,284       1,823       3,868
Bars - Cold Finished                  14,079      55,085       6,853      17,644
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               19,997      96,615      15,577      56,275
Wire Drawn                             6,574      26,648       5,619      17,846
Sheets Hot Rolled                      1,553       3,341         956       1,826
Sheets Cold Rolled                    63,132     166,583      44,018      88,190
Strip - Hot Rolled                       177         409         152         269
Strip - Cold Rolled                    6,581      25,932       5,440      16,859
                                           
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 Nick Orsini (301-763-6959) or Vanessa Ware
(301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau.

SOURCE:  U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products: Preliminary
March 2005 (CB-05-54)