The sites receiving ResponsibleSteel certification were POSCO’s Pohang and Gwangyang Steelworks in South Korea and Tata Steel’s Jamshedpur site in India.

The problem is that there are more than 13m tons of HRC capacity coming online or planned to come online in the next three years.

These include changes to the Emissions Trading System (ETS) and a new levy on imports under the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) to prevent carbon leakage.

Most of the capital goods in China posted lower prices in late October compared with mid-October, official data showed Friday.

The province's total import and export value from January to September hit 260.91 billion yuan ($35.96 billion), up 16.4 percent year-on-year.

Since its first iron ore shipment to China in 1973, Rio Tinto has supplied China with more than 3.5 billion tons of high-quality iron ore.

The company signed a cooperation agreement with Xinjiang Bayi Iron and Steel at the fourth CIIE in 2021 to provide the latter with approximately 4 million metric tons of iron ore worth $460 million this year.

The Great Lakes Clean Hydrogen Partnership made up of Linde, Energy Harbor, GE Aerospace, Cleveland-Cliffs steel manufacturing and the University of Toledo has moved forward with its US Department of Energy hydrogen hub application.