Acme Industrial Fasteners Inc.
Grey Forest Avenue
St. Paul, MN  56095

                                                                                  December12, 1996

Kobe Steel Ltd.
Steel Export Department
Wire Rod Export Section
Tekko Bldg., 8-2-1 Marunouchi
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo  100
Japan

Gentlemen:
    Our firm is the largest importer of wire rod in Minnesota. Recently, we saw a KOBELCO Bar Mill pamphlet and believe some of the products mentioned would be useful to our company.

     We are most interested in your companyÕs round bar product, sizes 30mm to 95mm, and deformed bar product, sizes 22mm to 48mm.

     Please let us know how we can obtain these products here in Minnesota.

                                                              Sincerely yours,

                                                             ( Signature)

                                                              Frank Meaner

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