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China Steel Corp (CSC, 中鋼) yesterday announced that it would lower domestic steel prices for July and August deliveries by 4.19 percent per tonne from next month’s levels to reflect weak demand by its downstream customers, but said it expected prices to stabilize next quarter.[Full Text]
Brazilian miner Vale (NYSE: VALE) will continue to look for partners to operate its steelmaking projects, which will add some 20Mt/y to the country's total steel output by 2015, sales and strategy director José Carlos Martins said in a press conference in São Paulo on Friday (Feb 25) .[Full Text]
Taiwan’s China Steel and China’s Baosteel are planning to invest jointly in overseas iron ore mines. The move is a rare example of companies from Taiwan and mainland China co-operating overseas, which in the past has been largely restricted to offshore oil drilling. The alliance, which the Taiwanese company confirmed on Wednesday, will be a first for cross-Strait steel industry co-operation.[Full Text]
Rio Tinto has conceded that regulatory obstacles are mounting against its ambitious plans to merge its Australian iron ore operations with those of BHP Billiton, its competitor.[Full Text]
Washington, D.C. -Based on the Commerce Department’s most recent Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis (SIMA) data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported today that steel import permit applications for the month of June totaled 1,955,000 net tons (NT).[Full Text]
Steel Authority of India Ltd. is in talks with Posco and ArcelorMittal to build two plants in eastern India after land acquisition delays stymied individual proposals from the global steelmakers..[Full Text]