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Steelmakers Press I uck on Pricing BY BoB TTIA IL tl ?i2tL

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30% 2016.'25A% r.*"""i1"i,".11i1i]"tJ ;;" t,".ui. eov"'fient start. the tariffs negated cut-rate

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'u's- steel producers25 '\"x#ri:mii:#nx* ll;i#r"*ig"*":ui:l;l ii!{iffi;l[i'#';:Y'':

20,:t.n,#Jiili"ioilt!-iw;;;;;h-itto'"a'iir;'"""iui"eun-relltozs%lastvearrromze%' as ;dffi; ilil t]'pes. of fair state aid or setting prices in 2015' - . : steet in recent months. rhat belox' the;;;i;rd;ctiol

DgTg:!i:- ptoducers have tu . .,. , l. , , ,i,,, , il:ril#ri;ii'i.il;;;;ir;ili rarins oi

-more 'than soo% used their improved leverase

troubled customers who say were teviea oi"ome proau"tt to increasetheir prices' ohio-

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for instance' has announced5' ;',,,,,li;i $$iirlth"yt*t. *l5ll.*ll*ru:p"xt ;ifi:,^*'{iiiil*#,lj;;iii. .' 'i:i. "i' .'| trves ryom counr-es u'd- -""'"" " fiil:;;;i-marGt. touowing on nine in 2016.o ' ',' ' , "' ' t' iected by the tariffs. rupted th rsio .go .eo ,oo ,10 ,.#""il;i ili' a"* this Wiren -a"*"J *""i."."a in Other

prodxcers in the U S ' in-

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