New China Effect: China's steel and raw materials industries and their global impact
This in-depth study is presented in two volumes:
Volume 1: Detailed analysis of China’s steel industry from end users to mining, and its place in the world.
Volume 2: Analysis of China’s impact on the rest of the world. This volume looks at possible scenarios for world steel trade and investment in the light of China’s growing over-capacity, and the implications for producers and investors in steel and its raw materials industries both in China and the rest of the world.
Key areas this major study addresses include:
- Will Chinese steel over-capacity flood the world with low cost exports?
- Will Chinese steel companies begin an acquisitions trail overseas as their home industry completes its restructuring?
- A review of what actually happened to demand and production during 2008 and early 2009.
- What will be the global balance of steel capacity and demand, given China’s likely policies on capacity and exporting?
- What will be the balance in iron ore? What is the implication for the big ore mining projects currently being developed, by the majors but especially by the junior miners?
- What will be the future profile of steel, scrap and ore prices?
- What is the impact on the shipping industry, and on shipbuilding?
The ‘old China effect’ through the 1990s up to 2007/8 boosted world trade in goods, kept world wage rates low, drove down prices of manufactured goods, suppressed inflation, and pumped liquidity into the US and world financial system. In 2007/8 this began to reverse, and a ‘new China effect’ emerged. Chinese wages and costs began increasing, soaring demand for raw materials and energy created a bubble in commodity prices and sparked world inflation.
In late 2008, however, as the world financial crisis deepened, Chinese growth began to falter and steel demand to fall ......
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Other relevant Metal Bulletin Research reports include:
- Steel: Weekly Market Tracker
- Steel Raw Materials: Weekly Market Tracker
- The Quarterly Global Iron Ore Cost Service
- The Quarterly Global Steel Cost Service
- Steel and its Raw Materials: A Global Market Outlook to 2020
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