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US coking coal prices held mostly steady at the end of this week, with European demand muted for the third quarter.

Chinese-Australian coal firm Yancoal expects to produce 38mn t of saleable coal in 2020.

Japan's iron ore imports fell further in June, as domestic steel mills maintained output cuts under pressure from lower manufacturing sector demand because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sections prices have fallen as low as £430-440/t delivered, according to buy-side sources, despite rises in scrap and iron ore.

Trade unions in the UK suggest they will not allow the end of blast furnace steel production.

China's steel demand expected to recover soon as floods recede: sources