China's northernmost province of Heilongjiang saw its foreign trade in goods grow 31.9 percent year-on-year to 145.06 billion yuan ($21.52 billion) in the first seven months of 2022, according to local customs.

For this year, mining exports could hit US$3.8bn, up 20% on 2021, Franco Mignacco, president of the Argentine chamber of mining entrepreneurs (CAEM), told state news agency Télam.

He urged steel enterprises to optimize technologies and engineering progress.

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World crude steel production for the 64 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 149.3 million tonnes (Mt) in July 2022, a 6.5% decrease compared to July 2021.

The bill includes incentives for companies that include union workers, but the overwhelming focus is on boosting US production and employment, he said.

Many steel enterprises saw profits drop by up to 90% in Q2 of this year, amid plunging steel prices.