Industry analysts predict more will come and that foreign steelmakers will help the American industry remain competitive worldwide.

By next year, they say, the company will be highly profitable, and foreign steelmakers will be worrying about competing with USX.

With world demand hurt by the Asian financial crisis, foreign steelmakers have sold their products at low prices.

Also false is your claim that pending unfair trade cases against foreign steelmakers were filed as a response to President Clinton's "mixed messages" on trade.

Industry officials attributed the drop to improved competition from United States steel mills, stronger markets abroad for foreign steelmakers and a weaker dollar.

The project could also spur entrepreneurs in this country to form new ventures - possibly with foreign steelmakers.

Some foreign steelmakers got moderately good news today.

They say the expiration of those measures will bring renewed competition from foreign steelmakers who have, in many cases, spent large sums to modernize their operations.

And customers contend that the quality of American steel is better than ever, comparable with that from foreign steelmakers.

Import quotas should keep foreign steelmakers at bay, he said.