Industry Updates
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CISA Pressured Rio Tinto on Iron Ore Delivery
It has been almost three months since Japanese steel mills and Brazilian iron ore suppliers agreed on the first iron ore price for 2008, but the iron ore price talks between Australian suppliers and Chinese and Jap...
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Iron Ore Pains for Chinese Industries
International iron ore price rise has triggered pains in various industries in China, and many companies have to look for ways to improve their production efficiency to rescue themselves.
Steel price follow suit
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China's 2008 Steel Market Forecast
How to understand the current characteristics of China's steel market? How to gauge the impact from China's macro control on the steel industry in 2008? How to grasp the direction of China's steel market in 2008? These are...
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Regulatory Factors Affecting China's Rare Earth Industry in 2008
Rescuing the bear market
China is the world's largest producer of rare earth, but due to unregulated mining activities and blind expansion of smelter capacities (China had rare earth smelting capacity of more tha...
Business News
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Australia Clears China Stake in Iron Firm
(Agencies)
Iron ore firm Golden West Resources said Australian foreign investment regulators had cleared a proposal for China's Hunan Valin Steel Tube & Wire Co to buy 11.4 percent of the company.
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Australia Clears China Stake in Iron Firm
(Agencies)
Iron ore firm Golden West Resources said Australian foreign investment regulators had cleared a proposal for China's Hunan Valin Steel Tube & Wire Co to buy 11.4 percent of the company.
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Shougang Cuts 70% Output for Olympics
(Xinhua)
Beijing Shougang Group, one of China's leading steel makers and the capital's major polluter, is fulfilling its commitment to cut output and pollution by 70 percent for the Olympic Games, a company source...
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Steel Industry Denies Rumor of Export Tax Rise
The China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) has denied rumors that there would be a rise in steel export taxes as soon as this weekend.
Some media reports, which speculated that export taxes on more than 80 types ...
Research reports
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Investment Report of China Steel Industry, 2000-2008
Stimulated by the continuous growth of China's economy and booming demand in the international steel market, China's steel industry has developed rapidly since 2000. China's output of crude steel nearly quadrupled in the p...
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Pollution Report of China Steel Industry, 2007-2008
China with rich coal resources ranks the first in the world in terms of coal reserves. In 2007, China's coal output and sales grew about 9% to 10%, and the profit growth rate of China's coal companies hit around 35% agains...
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Global & China Lithium Carbonate Industry Report, 2008-2010 (Updated V...
Lithium is the lightest metal in nature. Lithium with extremely high strategic value is widely applied in such traditional industries as battery, ceramics, glass, aluminum, lubricant and refrigerating agent, as well as in ...
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China Rare Earth Industry Report, 2007-2008
According to the data of the U.S. Geological Survey released in 2006, the basic reserves of rare earth in the world amounted to 154 million tons. China's rare earth reserves account for 57% of the world's total, ranking th...