Not just Japanese, but foreign ownership. And then there was certainly someone who had been in the trade. I'd been in Japan many, many times as the undersecretary of Treasury. There had been a history decades ago of dumping in the steel market that had left a bad taste of many in the domestic steel industry in the United States. So all those things came to play. So I was concerned about that. And I was also very clear from the beginning that my focus was the workers. (05:58–06:08)
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