While demand for steel has eased in the past months, mills still have some orders to fill.

虽然过去几个月钢铁需求缓和，但钢铁厂商还有一些订单需要完成。

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Customers are putting off orders thinking that they can pick up the same steel, but at a cheaper price, a couple weeks from now.

他说，客户们取消订单是在想，再过几个星期，他们就可以用更低的价格买到同样的钢铁产品。

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The steel company Duferco Farrell, for example, has cut about 600 jobs in Pennsylvania after it lost orders from its biggest customer because some of its goods are partly produced abroad.

比如，钢材公司Duferco Farrell已经在其失去最大客户的订单后在美国宾州裁员约600人，正因为它的部分货物是在美国国外生产的。

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Orders dropped for metals such as steel and aluminum, metal parts, electrical equipment and appliances, and defense aircraft.

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The timing of the job losses announcement has been dictated by the run-down of steel work on the yard's remaining orders.

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But, as the Supreme Court told President Truman when he attempted to use an executive order to place all steel factories under control of the federal government, executive orders may not be used to make laws, only to execute them.

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