1. WHAT FORCES DROVE MITTAL STEEL TO START EXPANDING ACROSS NATIONAL BORDERS? 'Purchasing asserts of distressed companies on cheap" is forces drove by Mittal steel to expanding across national borders. His opinion was that the global steel industry was passing the critical point and start to improve the business as well as larger the operations. This was sustained economic growth in developed nations and growing the demand in newly industrializing nations like China and India. He saw the opportunity of buying poor run Companies as capital and improving their efficiency by getting them in adopt modern production technology and reduce price of raw material using the purchasing power of global steel company