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    Written by John Packard


    As I was sitting at my desk this evening (around 8 PM ET) thinking about what I was going to write about in my Final Thoughts article, I flipped over to my second computer screen to look at the U.S. Department of Commerce site dealing with foreign steel imports. The site is normally updated every Tuesday at 5 PM. This week was not a normal week as they did not update the site on Tuesday and we have been inquiring with them all day today to see when they were going to catch up. We hadn’t heard from them and the site was not updated by the time Brett left our offices at 5:30 PM.

    So, now it’s 8 PM and viola! the site has been updated. Only problem is I rely on my right hand man (Brett) to assist me in crunching the numbers and burying me with both data and visuals to use in the newsletter. So, I have to wing it myself.

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