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
                                           

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

Total Selected Commodities           393,145   1,311,726     334,720     869,578

Ingots And Steel For Castings          8,294      20,471         934       1,753
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             68,050     187,386      62,075     128,356
Wire Rods                             18,210      49,784      12,296      28,068
Structural Shapes Heavy                  784       3,250       1,349       4,046
Plates Cut Lengths                    16,579      64,696      12,285      28,013
Plates In Coils                       10,750      33,550      15,534      41,483
Bars - Hot Rolled                      9,697      37,419       8,595      24,653
Bars - Light Shaped                    3,730      11,675       6,016      14,723
Bars - Cold Finished                  39,990     154,515      22,810      62,041
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               51,325     260,984      43,137     168,046
Wire Drawn                            17,313      74,189      15,688      55,253
Sheets Hot Rolled                      4,071       8,122       2,663       5,170
Sheets Cold Rolled                   127,675     340,358     115,978     257,634
Strip - Hot Rolled                       693       1,899         452       1,003
Strip - Cold Rolled                   15,983      63,426      14,909      49,335
                                           
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
June 2005 (CB-05-103)