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

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

Total Selected Commodities           394,227   1,277,540     393,145   1,311,726

Ingots And Steel For Castings          8,328      20,494       8,294      20,471
Blooms, Billets And Slabs             46,742     128,747      68,050     187,386
Wire Rods                             10,651      28,555      18,210      49,784
Structural Shapes Heavy                  949       3,333         784       3,250
Plates Cut Lengths                    18,715      66,322      16,579      64,696
Plates In Coils                       11,798      32,687      10,750      33,550
Bars - Hot Rolled                      7,640      35,131       9,697      37,419
Bars - Light Shaped                    3,458       9,512       3,730      11,675
Bars - Cold Finished                  33,453     126,273      39,990     154,515
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               53,127     294,077      51,325     260,984
Wire Drawn                            18,020      78,639      17,313      74,189
Sheets Hot Rolled                      6,962      11,588       4,071       8,122
Sheets Cold Rolled                   157,558     378,062     127,675     340,358
Strip - Hot Rolled                     1,246       3,081         693       1,899
Strip - Cold Rolled                   15,580      61,038      15,983      63,426
                                           

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
June 2006 (CB-06-113)