Exhibit 2B:  U.S. Imports for Consumption of Stainless Steel
Products:  (Census Basis)
Not Seasonally Adjusted

Quantity in metric tons/ value in thousands of dollars.
Details may not equal totals due to rounding

                                January 2006            January 2005
                                Cumulative to           Cumulative to
                                Date - Final            Date - Final
Commodity
Grouping                        Quantity    Value       Quantity    Value

Total Selected Commodities            72,732     243,204      79,185     250,505

Ingots And Steel For Castings            841       3,637       2,128       4,322
Blooms, Billets And Slabs              6,994      18,370       6,855      20,358
Wire Rods                              2,882       7,736       4,276      10,986
Structural Shapes Heavy                  171         612         153         653
Plates Cut Lengths                     3,411      12,996       2,663       8,444
Plates In Coils                        2,044       5,397       2,015       5,791
Bars - Hot Rolled                      1,705       7,406       1,560       5,784
Bars - Light Shaped                      501       1,467       1,054       3,147
Bars - Cold Finished                   5,937      23,050       7,316      27,550
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               11,236      62,599      10,022      47,962
Wire Drawn                             3,865      16,614       3,322      13,719
Sheets Hot Rolled                      1,902       2,929       1,054       2,267
Sheets Cold Rolled                    27,591      66,420      33,058      85,955
Strip - Hot Rolled                       368         813          62         159
Strip - Cold Rolled                    3,284      13,159       3,647      13,408
                                           

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
February 2006 (CB-06-44)