• FEATURE: China’s VAT cuts no guarantee to lower prices Mar 19, 2019

  China’s decision to reduce the value-added tax on manufacturers to 13% on April 1 from the prevalent 16% may not definitely lead to lower prices of ferrous products including iron ore and steel or downstream products such as auto, market sources said on Monday and Tuesday.

• FEATURE: China’s steel mills applaud possible VAT cuts Mar 07, 2019

  China’s steel industry is in general excited at the news on Beijing’s mulling cutting the value-added tax (VAT) on the domestic manufacturers and small and micro enterprises to 13% from the present 16%, possibly in 2019, expecting the measure to reduce their production costs, helping them enhance their competitiveness especially in the global market, according to market sources on March 5 and 6.

• FEATURE: Smog warning puts China mills under scrutiny Feb 20, 2019

  With severe air pollution expected to envelop large swathes of China this week and next, industries identified as major sources of pollution such as steel mills will likely come under close monitoring by local governments ready to slap emergency restrictions on production, steel sector sources warned Tuesday. But though stern official announcements and excited Chinese media reports have raised anxiety levels among affected enterprises up a few notches, steel market watchers counsel calm, maintaining that disruptions to production are unlikely to be any more severe than those the industry has already endured so far this winter.

• Feature: Tangshan, Handan far apart on winter curbs Nov 16, 2018

  The start of production restrictions for winter among Chinese steelmakers and their raw materials processors has revealed a vast difference in approach to the issue among steelmakers and local authorities in the country’s two largest steelmaking centres, Tangshan and Handan in North China’s Hebei province. But for the 200-odd steelmakers and merchant coke producers the cities host, the differences in policy execution by their city governments may be rendered irrelevant by nature if this week’s pollution alert emergency becomes a worrying regularity.

• FEATURE: “Differentiated” winter curbs not music to all Sep 13, 2018

  Chinese steel mills’ reaction varied to the possible “differentiated” curbing measures among them during the 2018 winter months, with some applauding the fairer touch while others concerned about the loopholes when inquired by Mysteel on Wednesday. China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment called for the local authorities at a government meeting

• FEATURE: Changzhou mills under pressure on emissions Jul 31, 2018

  Changzhou city in East China’s Jiangsu province is among the latest to join Beijing’s drive to improve air quality, with the city explicitly instructing 48 local steel mills to continue to cut their daily steel output beginning July 25 and lasting possibly until year’s end, an official from Changzhou City Environmental Protection Bureau confirmed on July 30.

• FEATURE: ASEAN now a new hotspot for steel investments Jul 03, 2018

  Many overseas investors have already or are exploring steel investment opportunities in the ASEAN region as many ASEAN countries are with great market potential with their fast-growing economies, Mysteel understands from the market sources.

• FEATURE: Baosteel ending stainless presence in Shanghai Jun 06, 2018

  Baosteel Stainless Steel Co, a subsidiary of China Baowu Group, has permanently shut down its carbon and stainless slab mills on June 1 in Baoshan district, East China's Shanghai, after 17 years of operations, moving the capacity to South China, a company official confirmed on June 5.