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

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

Total Selected Commodities           225,286     728,110     243,568     783,533

Ingots And Steel For Castings          3,250      10,786       5,772      13,701
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             26,482      71,965      38,941     104,121
Wire Rods                              6,733      17,865      10,410      27,838
Structural Shapes Heavy                  385       1,286         456       1,807
Plates Cut Lengths                    10,759      37,127       9,797      34,950
Plates In Coils                        5,981      16,403       6,719      20,154
Bars - Hot Rolled                      4,186      18,738       5,524      21,107
Bars - Light Shaped                    1,632       4,623       2,724       8,292
Bars - Cold Finished                  19,587      72,303      22,620      87,796
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               29,605     167,874      29,340     143,972
Wire Drawn                            10,599      45,614       9,974      41,130
Sheets Hot Rolled                      5,006       8,394       2,390       4,556
Sheets Cold Rolled                    90,981     216,207      89,166     235,546
Strip - Hot Rolled                       872       2,317         214         493
Strip - Cold Rolled                    9,226      36,605       9,523      38,069
                                           

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
April 2006 (CB-06-78)