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| | Emergency Steel Scrap Coalition |
 | | Scrap exports from the United States have doubled since 2000, rising from 6.3 million tons in 2000 to approximately 12 million tons in 2003. |
 | | These sharp price increases and the potential for scrap shortages are having significant, harmful effects on important manufacturing sectors of the U.S. economy. |
 | | All manufacturers, buyers and consumers of steel scrap, steel, or finished steel products are directly harmed by the rising cost and increasing unavailability of steel scrap, which in turn results in sharply higher prices for steel products such as sheet steel, plate, structural steel beams, reinforcing bar, and finished bar products. |
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