71.   The range of sanctions against foreign steel could include stiff tariffs that would make imports prohibitively expensive for American automakers and other users of steel.

72.   The tax has nothing to do with the ongoing U.S.-EU trade spat over American tariffs on foreign steel, Colannino said.

73.   Thousands of steelworkers rallied near the White House, urging President George W. Bush to help their struggling industry by imposing stiff tariffs on foreign steel.

74.   Trade negotiators from the United States and the European Union reported no breakthroughs Friday in a dispute involving steep tariffs the Bush administration imposed on foreign steel.

75.   U.S. companies say they need tariffs and limits on imports of foreign steel.

76.   Vietnam now relies heavily on imported foreign steel.

77.   Foreign steel manufacturers are hotly opposed to such tariffs.

78.   But foreign steel manufacturers are hotly opposed to such protection.

79.   But foreign steel manufacturers and domestic US steel consumers such as car manufacturers are hotly opposed to such protection.

80.   US President George W. Bush prepared Monday to step into a political furnace as he weighed the option of imposing hefty tariffs and quotas on imports of foreign steel.