1.   Additionally, steel shipments surged in May after a one-month slump, the American Iron and Steel Institute said.

2.   But Japan is also a longtime trading partner, and the steel shipments continue.

3.   Flat-rolled steel, used mainly in autos and appliances, accounts for half of all U.S. steel shipments.

4.   Similarly, steel shipments are rising more slowly than last year, and so are sales of corrugated boxes in which so many products are packed.

5.   Steel shipments surged in May after a one-month slump, the American Iron and Steel Institute said.

6.   Steel sheet is a basic industry product used in automobiles and appliances that accounts for almost half of all U.S. steel shipments.

7.   Steel shipments continue.

8.   The lower profit was due to a decline in the price of copper, lower average steel export prices and lower domestic steel shipments.

9.   Those two products together account for about half of all U.S. steel shipments.

10.   A move to restrict foreign steel shipments has been squelched in the U.S. Senate.