China to resume import checks on US scrap cargoes

China's one-month suspension of checks on scrap shipments from the United States - including those of ferrous scrap - will end soon, with the checks resuming as planned from June 4, an official from China's General Administration of Customs (GAC) confirmed on Friday. But the lifting of the block on imports is unlikely to produce a surge of US-origin scrap steel entering China, according to market sources.

China’s one-month suspension of checks on scrap shipments from the United States – including those of ferrous scrap – will end soon, with the checks resuming as planned from June 4, an official from China’s General Administration of Customs (GAC) confirmed on Friday. But the lifting of the block