Steel exports down 13.6% YoY in Jan-Jul

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a notice on the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for Industrial Green Development” on December 3. In the column of “Efficient Resource Utilisation Promotion Project", the recycling of renewable resources is mentioned.

The "three red lines” refers to the 70% ceiling on liabilities to assets after excluding advance proceeds from projects sold on contract, 100% cap on net debt to equity, and cash to short-term borrowing ratio of at least one. One year after the introduction of the policy, the average asset-liability ratio and the average asset-liability ratio after excluding advance receipts at the top 100 real estate companies stood at 78.7% and 70.9%, respectively, which was a year-on-year decline of 0.7 percentage point and 0.9 percentage point.

A roundup of the ferrous metals headlines of the week.

A total of 81 vessels carrying 12.63 million mt of iron ore arrived at major Chinese ports during July 11-17, SMM estimates. This was down 550,000 mt from the previous week, and down 2.59 million mt from the same period last year.

Futures and spot prices of ferrous metals fluctuated last week. The futures prices of coking coal and coke weakened amid looser control after July 1, while spot prices stood stable.

Operating rates of blast furnaces at steel mills fell 2.7 percentage points from a week ago and decreased 3.8 percentage points from a month ago to 82.2% as of July 1, SMM survey showed.

The China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) reported that crude steel output across major mills in China averaged 2.4 million mt per day in the second ten days of June, up 2.57% from early June and up 15.99% from the same period a year ago.

The China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) reported that crude steel output across major mills in China averaged 2.34 million mt per day in the first ten days of June, up 2.15% from late May and up 13.33% from the same period a year ago.

The Daixian County Bureau of Industry and Information Technology issued a notice on June 23 that would cut off power for 84 dressing plants, 83 iron ore fines processing plants, and 19 metallurgical industry and trade enterprises.

Chongqing Steel, a subsidiary of China Chongqing Steel Group, announced that its controlling shareholder, Chongqing Changshou Steel completed a change in business registration on December 2.