Chip Goodyear Continue Quotations

It (sales in China) is growing extremely rapidly. It is our largest customer now by country, ... That market will continue to be our strongest market, and with iron prices and coking coal prices beginning to reflect the increase that was negotiated earlier, you can expect to see that China would continue to grow as a percentage (of sales).

We continue to feel quite good about China.

Underlying demand is very strong. We continue to be optimistic about China. As you look around the world, growth continues to look good.

Like any economy there are business cycles and these will occur in China like they do anywhere else. The key for us is going to be our position in large, low cost assets...that we can manage through those times. The fact is that growth continues in China ,