Final Thoughts

One of the questions asked of each of the major market segments (manufacturing, service centers/wholesalers and trading companies) was about what they thought about Dan DiMicco’s involvement with the Trump Administration as potentially the U.S. Trade Representative. I thought the results were quite interesting.

Manufacturing companies seem to be less enamored with DiMicco as U.S. Trade Representative than service centers, and trading companies seem to be evenly split on whether DiMicco will be good or bad for their business.

We have a wait list for our next Steel 101 workshop. We will try to see if we can clear the people on the wait list by the end of this week. I hope to be able to announce the next Steel 101 training workshop which will be in the early Spring 2017. We expect to produce four Steel 101 workshops during calendar year 2017.

We are coming up on Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year’s. We expect to publish on Thursday, December 22nd. We will not publish on Sunday, December 25th and we will publish our price indices and very little else on Tuesday, December 27th. We will publish our normal issue on Thursday, December 29th and then not again until Tuesday, January 3rd.

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