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 The U.S.,
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 which is finalizing its steel-import quotas,
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 is allocating a larger share of its steel market to developing and newly industrialized countries 
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which have relatively unsubsidized steel industries.
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 Meanwhile, the U.S. has negotiated a significant cut in Japan's steel quota,
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 and made only a minor increase to the steel allotment for the European Community.
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 Brazil, similar to Mexico and South Korea, is expected to negotiate a somewhat bigger share of the U.S. market
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 than it had under the previous five-year steel quotas,
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 which expired Sept. 30.
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 Brazil and Venezuela are the only two countries 
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that haven't completed steel talks with the U.S. for the year
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 ending Oct. 1, 1990.
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 In recent years, U.S. steelmakers have supplied about 80% of the 100 million tons of steel
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 used annually by the nation.
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 Of the remaining 20% needed, the steel-quota negotiations allocate about 15% to foreign suppliers, with the difference 
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supplied mainly by Canada 
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-- which isn't included in the quota program.
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 Other countries 
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that don't have formal steel quotas with the U.S., such as Taiwan, Sweden and Argentina,
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 also have supplied steel. 
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Some of these countries have in recent years made informal agreements with the U.S.
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 that are similar to quotas.
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 The Bush administration earlier this year said
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 it would extend steel quotas,
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 known as voluntary restraint agreements,
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 until March 31, 1992.
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 It also said 
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it would use that two-and-a-half year period 
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to work toward an international consensus
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 on freeing up the international steel trade,
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 which has been notoriously managed, subsidized and protected by governments.
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 The U.S. termed its plan, a trade liberalization program,
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 despite the fact 
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that it is merely an extension.
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 Mexico,
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 which was one of the first countries 
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to conclude its steel talks with the U.S.,
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 virtually doubled its quota to 0.95% of the U.S. steel market from 0.48% under the previous quotas.
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 South Korea, 
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which had 1.9% under the previous quotas,
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 is set 
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to get a small increase to about 1.95%.
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 That increase rises to slightly more than 2% of the U.S. market 
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if a joint Korean-U.S. steel project is included.
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45
 Meanwhile, Brazil is expected to increase its allowance from the 1.43% share 
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it has had in recent years.
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 The EC and Japan 
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-- the U.S.'s largest steel suppliers -- 
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49
haven't been filling their quotas to the full extent.
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 The EC steel industry, 
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which has been coping with strong European demand,
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 has been supplying about 5% of the U.S. market 
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53
compared with recent quotas of about 6.7%.
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54
 Japan has been shipping steel to total about 4.5% of the U.S. market
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 compared with a quota of 5.9%.
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56
 In the recent talks, the EC had its quota increased about 300,000 tons, to 7% of the U.S. market from 6.7% in 1988.
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57
 But its quota has been as high as 6.9% in 1984.
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 Japan, however, has agreed to cut its quota to about 5% from 5.9% previously.
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59
 Japan, the EC, Brazil, Mexico and South Korea provide about 80% of the steel
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 imported to the U.S. under the quota program.
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 The balance is supplied by a host of smaller exporters, such as Australia and Venezuela.
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62
 The U.S. had about an extra 2% of the domestic steel market 
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to give to foreign suppliers in its quota talks.
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 That was essentially made up of a 1% increase in the overall quota program and 1% from cutting Japan's allowance.
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65
 Negotiators from the White House trade office will repeat these quota negotiations next year 
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66
when they will have another 1% of the U.S. steel market to allocate.
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 These optional 1%-a-year increases to the steel quota program are built into the Bush administration's steel-quota program 
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to give its negotiators leverage with foreign steel suppliers 
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to try to get them to withdraw subsidies and protectionism from their own steel industries.
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