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

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

Total Selected Commodities           145,849     476,120     161,961     515,113

Ingots And Steel For Castings          1,706       6,689       4,112       8,799
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             16,454      43,545      22,582      60,506
Wire Rods                              4,614      12,300       7,246      18,987
Structural Shapes Heavy                  222         794         255         990
Plates Cut Lengths                     7,372      26,198       5,881      19,003
Plates In Coils                        3,717      10,142       4,302      12,471
Bars - Hot Rolled                      2,780      12,194       3,395      13,460
Bars - Light Shaped                      974       2,828       2,095       6,284
Bars - Cold Finished                  12,397      46,935      14,079      55,085
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               19,897     113,443      19,997      96,615
Wire Drawn                             6,729      29,513       6,574      26,648
Sheets Hot Rolled                      3,248       5,172       1,553       3,341
Sheets Cold Rolled                    59,433     141,549      63,132     166,583
Strip - Hot Rolled                       619       1,559         177         409
Strip - Cold Rolled                    5,688      23,257       6,581      25,932
                                           

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 2006 (CB-06-61)