Steel is the mainstay of the world's major industries. World steel production has grown dramatically as countries industrialize and add their own steel-producing capacity. China's prodigious expansion of steel output increases the industry's natural vulnerability to oversupply and volatile...

Canada and the United States exchange the world's highest level of bilateral trade, valued at $1.4 billion a day. Two-thirds of this trade travels on trucks. Heavy Traffic examines the way in which the regulatory reform of American and Canadian trucking, coupled with free trade, has...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Tough Industry -- 3 Prices, Preferences, and Strategy -- 4 Trading Steel -- 5 Survival -- 6 Steel in a Global Perspective -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M --...

Federal rail regulation in the United States and Canada is strongly centralized. The Burlington Northern Santa Fe and the Canadian National railways' 1999 merger application called the existing rules into question. In the United States, the Surface Transportation Board ordered a 15–month...