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

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

Total Selected Commodities           302,023     983,843     320,383   1,046,245

Ingots And Steel For Castings          6,009      16,176       7,769      18,996
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             35,755      97,312      54,958     149,302
Wire Rods                              8,839      23,406      14,102      37,731
Structural Shapes Heavy                  669       2,371         586       2,317
Plates Cut Lengths                    14,103      49,393      14,279      54,045
Plates In Coils                        7,967      22,402       8,926      27,230
Bars - Hot Rolled                      5,687      25,877       7,728      29,562
Bars - Light Shaped                    2,521       6,830       3,262      10,092
Bars - Cold Finished                  26,630     100,391      31,039     120,569
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               40,292     230,305      40,384     197,133
Wire Drawn                            14,036      60,823      13,323      56,114
Sheets Hot Rolled                      5,572       9,272       3,359       6,492
Sheets Cold Rolled                   120,679     287,743     107,283     284,305
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,126       2,874         404         874
Strip - Cold Rolled                   12,138      48,667      12,981      51,484
                                           

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
May 2006 (CB-06-100)