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What Is <strong>North</strong> America’s –<br />

Market Perspective?<br />

• However<br />

-- <strong>The</strong> <strong>North</strong> <strong>American</strong> <strong>Industry</strong> Did Not<br />

Recognize This Competitive Landscape Change<br />

Until Mid 1990s and --<br />

Continued to behave as it did in <strong>the</strong> past – investing<br />

available cash in new capacity in 1980’s & early<br />

1990s<br />

• This New Capacity Relied on Increasingly<br />

Competitive Export Markets to Maintain Volume<br />

• Yet – Simultaneously -- Developing Regions &<br />

Europe Began Aggressive Imports into <strong>North</strong><br />

America.<br />

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