This legislation is endorsed by the American Iron and Steel Institute.

The International Iron and Steel Institute said today that the figure was up 6 percent from 1987's level.

Earlier, he had been director of public relations for the American Iron and Steel Institute.

In May 1955, he was elected president of the American Iron and Steel Institute.

That council is part of the American Iron and Steel Institute, the powerful Washington-based trade association.

That pallet truck won a design excellence award from the American Iron and Steel Institute in 1965.

Steel production fell 5.2 percent, to 59.9 million metric tons last month, from a year earlier, the International Iron and Steel Institute said today.

According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, a trade group, production of raw steel in 2001 was 11.5 percent lower than the previous year.

"Quotas are a second-best solution," said an official of the American Iron and Steel Institute, the industry's trade association.

It was the best export performance since 1940, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute, the principal industry trade group.