Cisa: China's iron ore external dependence will be more than 80%

April 29 from the China iron and steel association learned that the first quarter of the national steel market demand decline, crude steel apparent consumption decline than last year's decline has widened.Iron ore prices have fallen sharply. China's iron mines are facing losses, production cuts or even partial shutdowns, and iron ore dependence on foreign markets will exceed 80%.

It is estimated that the apparent consumption of crude steel in the first quarter was 177 million tons, down 6.2 percent year-on-year.In terms of iron ore, the increase in supply, demand, import iron ore prices fell sharply, since last year by the beginning of last year's $133.1 / kg to $51.2 / ton, by the end of march to April 13, to drop to $47.8 / ton, on the one hand to eat imported ore of iron and steel enterprises to reduce costs to create the conditions, on the other hand make domestic mining of iron and steel enterprise management difficulties, especially the anshan iron and steel, shougang, taiyuan, hebei iron and steel has its own mining joint venture of the material advantage gradually disappear, and even become the burden of the operation and development.China's iron mines are generally faced with losses, production cuts or even partial suspension. The 40% reduction in the resource tax on iron mines by the state will play a certain role in alleviating losses of iron mines, but it is not enough to compete with foreign mines. Iron ore dependence on foreign mines will exceed 80%, which is not conducive to the safety of the domestic iron and steel industry.