Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-12 | Page 13 | Stell Export Increase Seen

STEEL EXPORT INCREASE SEEN U. S. Steel Official Says the World Looks to America for Supply. Exportation of American steel to the orient and to all European countries will increase greatly in the future, said A. A. Kahil, chief of the sales department of the United States Steel corporation in the orient, who left for New York yesterday. Mr. Kahil married Miss Cora Howe of Salt La);e. and has been visiting his wife's mother in Salt Lake. Although the war caused a decrease in the exportation of steel for industrial ntinnca rh rPPOtlSt r JC tiOD DfiTiOd. lie said, has created a demand in all the nations of the world. America is naturally natur-ally looked to as the world's greatest source of supply, he said. While Japan is experimenting with the manufacture of steel, according to Mr. Kahil, he said it would be some time before that country would be successful to any large extent, as the materials for the manufacture OI the product are limited there. People in the orient, and especially In Japan, are coming to America to learn modern svstems and methods, he declared, and a spirit of progress seems to be dominant in the nations of the far east.