31.   Record prices for some steel products helped offset a decline in production and in both domestic shipments and exports.

32.   Semifinished steel mill products and cold-rolled steel sheets and strip were also up more than they had been in December.

33.   Scrap recyclers purchase scrap from steel producers, automakers and other industrial companies that use steel products.

34.   Shares in steelmakers dropped sharply after Nucor Corp. announced a price cut in a major steel product.

35.   Steelmakers slid on concern sluggish economic growth will mean weaker demand for steel products, pinching earnings.

36.   Take Roanoke Electric Steel Corp., a Virginia-based mini-mill producer of finished steel products.

37.   The booming Korean auto industry, which takes nearly half of the local cold-rolled steel sheet product, was behind the demand, he said.

38.   The Clinton White House had in the past imposed import restrictions on a few steel products and taken other steps to help the industry.

39.   The diplomat said a list that focused purely on steel products would have the same effect.

40.   The growth in sales has been driven by an increase in demand for galvanised steel products.