As with health care last year, there has been a lot of verbiage and not much steel.
The French government can do little directly to prevent the Arcelor takeover, since it is neither a shareholder nor regulator of the firm, and steel is not on its recently published list of protected sectors.
Yet mini-mills cannot do it all: there is not enough scrap to satisfy all steel demand, and steel made from scrap is not high enough quality for all uses.
How smart is Dagny and Ellis for not testing the steel themselves but they bravely ride a high speed train over a bridge made of it?
The goal is clear, but getting there, finding a way through the murk and smog that hangs over cities like Wuhan, and forging a future based not on steel but a different type of economy - that's the hard part.
" Jake van der Kamp, a columnist for the English-language daily South China Morning Post, called the cyberport a bad approach to fostering a high-tech industry "for the simple reason that concrete, steel and glass do not produce better neural connections in the brain.
In the commodity world the momentum has been found in such areas as rare earth, precious metal, coals and uranium however the steel names have not performed as one would expect.
Due to a cash crunch, contractors had stopped payments to cement and steel companies, migrant workers had not received wages for months, and projects to build thousands of kilometers of track had been put on hold.
In a slumping economy, suppliers quoted rock-bottom prices not just manufacturers of steel, glass and scaffolding but also painters, sculptors and other artists seeking commissions.
Partial rebates or carve-outs can be provided to energy-intensive U.S. businesses like petrochemicals, steel and aluminum to ensure they are not penalized on export markets or from foreign imports.
Stark and majestic in steel and poured concrete, sitting on a solitary bluff overlooking the Gulf, it is not the house you'd imagine for a retired couple, but they didn't move south to wither in the sun and die.
If investors were betting their own money, these redundant cement factories not to mention steel mills, luxury flats and car plants would probably never have been built.
Although feet were designed to walk barefoot on Earth's natural surfaces (grass, sand or gravel), they were not prepared to endure the concrete, asphalt and steel that covers so many landscapes today, Thompson said.
That way all the participating countries would avoid the uncertainty of not knowing what their neighbors were doing in coal and steel.
Car buyers pay for labour, steel and paint, but the price sticker may not reflect the full cost of the noxious goo the car factory spills into a river.
There were organisations variously called the European Economic Community, The European Coal and Steel Community and so on, but there was not a European Union before 1 Nov, 1993.
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Some pieces in "Sinister Pop, " such as Lee Bontecou's wall sculpture of welded steel, wire and rope from 1961, would not look alien in a show about the New York School.
Rivals like U.S. Steel and Arcelor-Mittal wondered aloud and not without reason if a Russian billionaire should get a taxpayer loan to expand in America.
Skip forward to today's list of the 100 largest companies. (This and the intervening lists are by market value, not assets.) Steel has vanished from the roster.
Steel and copper traders told Barclays analysts that their inventories were not particularly high.
It also bid for South Africa's Highveld Steel, and will bid again if Evraz of Russia does not complete its agreed takeover of the firm.
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Steel said he had not read the Chamber's report and could not comment on it.
Several big firms, among them Saudi Arabian Airlines and the National Iranian Steel Corporation, have been omitted because verifiable results were not available.
But steel making on Teesside's gone, and it's not coming back.
There was also confusion with regards to steel works in Wales and the minister confirmed that their emissions do not come under the assembly governments targets.
Unlike ArcelorMittal, U.S. Steel does not have any major operations in Asia or Africa and will therefore see a substantial drop in sales in the next few quarters.
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So if your patented device uses an iron rod and a competitor develops the same device with a steel rod, you may not be protected under the ruling.
On the trade front, not only did President Bush enact tariffs on steel, softwood lumber and shrimp, his administration regularly bashed Chinese export policies, as has the Obama administration.
Separately, glass and ceramic containers can be used in the microwave, but not those made of stainless steel.
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