What if China’s iron ore anti-dumping case wins?

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From Clyde Russell:

There is something of a delicious irony in China’s iron ore miners complaining of dumping by foreign producers, but what it really underscores is the multitude of challenges facing the world’s biggest steel industry.

The domestic miners want an anti-dumping investigation into iron ore imported from the world’s top suppliers, complaining that low-cost majors – Brazil’s Vale and the Anglo-Australian pair of Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton – are flooding the market.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.