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

Total Selected Commodities           468,029   1,577,644     412,738   1,090,893

Ingots And Steel For Castings          9,103      22,505         963       1,802
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             78,800     219,389      77,376     161,399
Wire Rods                             21,843      60,211      15,192      35,626
Structural Shapes Heavy                  825       3,443       1,469       4,437
Plates Cut Lengths                    19,939      77,598      15,457      36,692
Plates In Coils                       14,988      45,566      19,287      52,685
Bars - Hot Rolled                     11,585      45,802      10,829      30,663
Bars - Light Shaped                    4,116      13,018       7,313      18,470
Bars - Cold Finished                  48,759     186,978      27,592      77,005
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               61,918     318,966      53,037     214,833
Wire Drawn                            20,807      91,330      18,411      66,867
Sheets Hot Rolled                      4,912      10,206       3,156       6,187
Sheets Cold Rolled                   150,073     402,771     144,247     323,971
Strip - Hot Rolled                       904       2,508         542       1,277
Strip - Cold Rolled                   19,458      77,354      17,867      58,980
                                           
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
July 2005 (CB-05-123)