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US STEEL: Prices US$500 Million Offering of 7% Senior Notes United States Steel Corporation has priced US$500 million of 7% Senior Notes due 2018. The senior notes were priced at 99.087% of the principal amount. The proceeds of the offering will be used to repay the US$400 million one-year term loan incurred to finance a portion of the acquisition of Stelco Inc., now known as U. S. Steel Canada Inc. and the balance will be used for general corporate purposes. Banc of America Securities LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. are joint book runners for this offering. Copies of the prospectus may also be obtained from: U. S. Steel Attn: Manager-Investor Relations 600 Grant Street Pittsburgh, PA 15219-2800 Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) -- http://www.ussteel.com/ -- manufactures a wide variety of steel sheet, tubular and tin products; coke, and taconite pellets; and has a worldwide annual raw steel capability of 26.8 million net tons. U.S. Steel's domestic primary steel operations are: Gary Works in Gary, Indiana; Great Lakes Works in Ecorse and River Rouge, Michigan; Mon Valley Works, which includes the Edgar Thomson and Irvin plants, near Pittsburgh and Fairless Works near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Granite City Works in Granite City, Illinois; Fairfield Works near Birmingham, Alabama; Midwest Plant in Portage, Indiana; and East Chicago Tin in East Chicago, Indiana. The company also operates two seamless tubular mills, Lorain Tubular Operations in Lorain, Ohio; and Fairfield Tubular Operations near Birmingham, Alabama. U. S. Steel produces coke at Clairton Works near Pittsburgh, at Gary Works and Granite City Works. On Northern Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range, U.S. Steel's iron ore mining and taconite pellet operations, Minnesota Taconite and Keewatin Taconite, support the steelmaking effort, and its subsidiary ProCoil Company provides steel distribution and processing services. U.S. Steel's steelmaking subsidiaries U.S. Steel Kosice, s.r.o., in Kosice, Slovakia and U.S. Steel Serbia, d.o.o, in Sabac and Smederevo, Serbia. Acero Prime, the company's joint venture with Feralloy Mexico, S.R.L. de C.V. and Intacero de Mexico, S.A. de C.V., provides Mexico's automotive and appliance manufacturers with total supply chain management services through its slitting and warehousing facility in San Luis Potosi and its warehouse in Ramos Arizpe. * * * As reported in the Troubled Company Reporter on Dec. 10, 2007, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services assigned its 'BB+' senior unsecured rating to the proposed offering of up to US$400 million in senior unsecured notes due Feb. 1, 2018, of United States Steel Corp. (BB+/Negative/--). These notes are being issued under the company's unlimited shelf registration filed on March 5, 2007. |
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