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					Originally Posted by Mark Bowditch
					
				 
				I forgot -- Japan also was a significant exporter of iron to SEA. 
			
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 I'm suprised learn this, Mark.   I assumed that, given the poor quality of Japanese iron "sand", and the laborious tecniques employed to make homogenous steel, that exporting iron wouldn't be a big industry.  Did they export refined iron, or just ore?