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
                                           

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

Total Selected Commodities           539,346   1,832,021     493,506   1,310,123

Ingots And Steel For Castings         10,073      24,609       2,230       4,534
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             88,975     249,241      95,250     199,634
Wire Rods                             24,160      66,595      18,477      43,647
Structural Shapes Heavy                1,009       4,264       1,718       5,254
Plates Cut Lengths                    22,918      91,287      17,516      42,393
Plates In Coils                       20,213      62,456      22,268      61,041
Bars - Hot Rolled                     13,750      54,427      12,567      36,785
Bars - Light Shaped                    4,472      14,257       8,419      21,643
Bars - Cold Finished                  57,703     221,205      32,295      91,628
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               71,033     369,144      63,145     259,016
Wire Drawn                            24,094     105,378      21,793      79,735
Sheets Hot Rolled                      5,852      11,554       3,620       7,320
Sheets Cold Rolled                   171,288     462,176     172,729     386,228
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,000       2,723         766       1,851
Strip - Cold Rolled                   22,808      92,704      20,712      69,415
                                           
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
August 2005 (CB-05-135)