November 2019 | Steel Raw Materials
China continued to import merchant iron metallics: Latest Analysis
In October, the first month of the latest “winter cuts” in China, the gap between iron and steel production widened only slightly, by 472,000 tonnes to 15.94 million tonnes.
China continued to import merchant iron metallics, and to a lesser extent – semi-finished steel, in October, recent customs data shows. The country imported 250,612 tonnes of hot-briquetted iron (HBI) and 80,841 tonnes of merchant pig iron (MPI) last month, while semi-finished steel imports totalled 125,792 tonnes. Although China’s interest in iron metallics imports provide some support to international...
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