Steel imports have been declining for the last several years.

Steel imports for the first seven months of 1989 were 10.2 million tons, down 19.7 percent from the corresponding period last year.

Steel imports totaled $7.8 billion last year, or 17.8 percent of the market.

As head of the company, he criticized the Government for not doing more to diminish steel imports.

We will not close our market to steel imports.

This low production cost in Brazil is another barrier to foreign steel imports.

In particular, steel imports have lately been declining, not rising.

But the taxes will not cover enough of the nation's steel imports to help the American industry much, people with knowledge of the case said.

Q. This is the first time since the early 1980's that stiff barriers on steel imports have been considered.

The trade group said steel imports came to 7.9 million tons in the period, down from 8.7 million a year earlier.