The End of the Steel Industry

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International competition is what causes the ultimate decline of the steel industry, he says. There's a book why the garden club didn't save young youngstown about this, yes, exactly. Many of these international competitors have uow in japan, in germany and so on, have also domestic subsidy - which is indirectly subsidized by the united states because it's a cold war.

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