61.   AK Steel makes carbon, stainless and electrical steel products for the auto, appliance, construction and manufacturing industries, plus pipe and tubular steel products.

62.   Among steps to be discussed are collaboration in purchasing raw materials, steelmaking and distributing steel products.

63.   Bank officials attributed the widening deficit mainly to falling prices of such major export items as semiconductors and steel products.

64.   Export markets eyed for the flat steel product and DRI-HDI, a raw material used in steel production, are West and South-East Asia.

65.   European Union foreign ministers backed proposals calling for retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports Monday despite conciliatory moves by the United States to exempt some European steel products.

66.   Exports of petrochemicals, oil products, semiconductors and steel products also rose.

67.   Foreign steel products were sold to China last year at below-market prices, it said.

68.   Gooch said that if the EU finds that Washington did not go far enough in exempting European steel products, tariffs could be imposed.

69.   He also risks a loss of jobs if domestic manufacturers decide to assemble steel products or make steel parts overseas.

70.   Hot-rolled steel ends up in just about every steel product, from welded pipe tubes to automobile body frames.