91.   Reductions in steel imports lessen the need for tariffs on foreign steel, a lawyer for foreign steel companies said Thursday.

92.   President Bill Clinton has warned Japan that unless steel imports from Japan decline dramatically, the administration will bring a trade case against Japan.

93.   President Bush decided Tuesday to initiate a trade case that could impose sharp restrictions on steel imports to protect the beleaguered American steel industry.

94.   Rejecting a U.S. appeal, a World Trade Organization panel upheld a ruling that the United States had acted illegally in increasing duties on Japanese steel imports.

95.   Russian media have drawn a connection between the poultry ban and threatened U.S. sanctions on Russian steel imports.

96.   Some trade lawyers had expected the EU to wait to see whether the predicted increase in steel imports materializes before taking defensive action.

97.   Steel imports are an essential input for U.S. manufacturing.

98.   Steel imports decreased in February, though not enough to ease the concerns of labor and industry officials worried about what they see as unfair competition for American firms.

99.   Steel imports dropped slightly in January, for the fifth time in the last six months, the Commerce Department reported Friday.

100.   Steel imports have been the subject of intense political and economic interest in recent months.