KIEV, Nov. 5 - Ukraine's steel industry reduced finished roll output 6% year-on-year in the first 10 months of 2008 to 28.123 million tons, the Industrial Policy Ministry told Interfax.

Thus, roll production continues to slow: it jumped 6% year-on-year in the first half of 2008, but rose 4% in the first seven months and just 2% in the first eight months before falling 1% in the first nine months.