SAIL RSP Sets National Record for Steel Heats with BOF Supplied by SMS Group.

The World Trade Organization last month set up a panel to rule on the complaint.

Dalian Commodity Exchange limits iron ore trade volume on September, January contracts.

China's manufacturing activity rises for second month in July.

The 1.56mn metric ton (t)/yr blast furnace at Indiana Harbor was idled in March as the US economy shut down because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Indian private-sector utility JSW Energy has terminated a proposed deal to acquire a coal-fired power plant in east India citing "continued uncertainty" amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Integrated steelmaker US Steel will keep its two remaining idled blast furnaces down for the rest of 2020.

China's coal industry association the CCTD forecasts domestic coal supplies to exceed demand in this year's second half because of new production capacity starting up.