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                    [Title] => Cuban eyes world record with 268-foot cigar
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. But one Cuban man is hoping that a 268-foot super-stogie he rolled is something more: a world record.

[DatePublished] => 2011-05-04 08:52:29 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 578030 [Title] => Government mulls lifting tariffs on oil, steel [Summary] =>

The government is looking at lifting the tariffs on crude oil and refined petroleum products, and on hot-rolled and cold-rolled coil steel, a top official said today.

[DatePublished] => 2010-05-25 16:35:16 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 390907 [Title] => Global Steel sees 80% export growth [Summary] => Global Steel Philippines, the country’s largest manufacturer and exporter of hot rolled and cold rolled coils, said it will export over 60,000 metric tons of hot rolled and cold rolled coils for this month, 80 percent more than what is sold overseas during the same period the previous year.

For the local market, meanwhile, Global Steel said it expects to sell 30,000 MT for the month, 200 percent more than what it sold a year ago.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1480108 [AuthorName] => Ma. Elisa Osorio  [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 160931 [Title] => Steel industry faces shortage of raw materials [Summary] => The price and supply of construction materials especially of GI sheets and pre-painted roofing materials may be drastically affected owing to the scarcity of sources for flat steel raw materials, particularly hot rolled coils and cold rolled coils.

Alberto M. Albano, president of the Philippine Iron and Steel Institute (PISI), the umbrella organization of local steel producers and traders, said that aside from GI sheets, other sectors to be affected are the fabricators of steel plates, tubes, pipes, steel purlins and frames and studs.
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Salvio D. Perez, vice president and general manager of Puyat Steel Mills and president of the Filipino Galvanizers Institute (FGI), noted that foreign steel mills, particularly in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China have drastically cut back their production and export volumes of flat steel products to other countries, including the Philippines.
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