Brazil produced 2.9 Mt, down 4.0%. Iran is estimated to have produced 2.2 Mt, down 20.7%.

Japan's ferrous scrap exports continued to recover in April on sustained demand from South Korea.

The government has laid out a multi-pronged approach to help Zimbabwe’s mines scale up production as industry executives indicated that the scale of capital required to bolster operations was too huge for domestic lenders.

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Among the cargo was 5.02 million tons of grain and fertilizers, a 28.2-percent increase year-on-year, the data shows.

Its largest suppliers of steel and iron included China, Japan, South Korea and India, said the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

So far it has invested in the green and clean wind power industry in Greece, which is an active participant in the Belt and Road Initiative.