Steel Industry

Beijing criticizes proposed tariffs by Washington amid fears it could shatter global growth.

China and Europe lashed out against new U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs, while officials and executives from several American allies caught in the crossfire reacted more cautiously, embracing what the White House promised would be some flexibility...

The city of Handan in the top steelmaking province of Hebei has ordered steel mills to halve output a month earlier than expected, according to media reports, the latest city to ramp up efforts to reduce the smog that blankets northern China during...

Over the summer, price differentials between high and low grade iron ore have intensified amid a government-led crackdown on pollution and outdated steelmaking capacity. That has caught many traders on the hop and left some nursing nasty losses from...

As the Trump administration and their Chinese counterparts meet this week to hammer out agreements on trade, they are likely to use the same rationale—national security—to argue for very different goals.

China exported 620,000 tonnes of steel direct to the United States last year, a fraction of the 800 million tonnes it produces each year, equal to about half of world output.

China’s economy, the world’s second-largest behind that of the United States, grew 6.9 percent in the first quarter, led by strong expansion at factories, Chinese officials said Monday.

China is planning a new crackdown on steel production in the north-eastern city of Tangshan in a bid to prevent false reporting of mill closures by local governments reluctant to obey shutdown orders.

China has grown by leaps and bounds during its quest for greater domestic innovation, but one of its most recent accomplishments is in an area that’s considerably more basic: ballpoint pens.

Kevin Frayer's photographs of illegal Chinese steel factories look like postcards from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution

Trump has been stiffing American steel workers on his own construction projects for years

Is the improvement fleeting or real?

Beijing revives push to consolidate heavy industry

China is increasingly relying on coking-coal shipments from abroad due to a local shortage.

China is urged to reduce its steel production for the sake of the U.S. economy....

The "excess" production is causing such a crisis for the global steel industry that U.S. is joining an international push to try to cut the glut.

The river plain once at the forefront of the Communist Party’s first attempt at a modern economy has become a valley of brutal murder, protests, and suicide.

China expects to lay off about 15 percent of the workforce, as part of efforts to reduce industrial overcapacity.

China’s steel and metals markets, a barometer of the world’s second-biggest economy, are “a lot worse than you think.”

That could pile pressure on mills already struggling with weak demand-growth as the world's No.2 economy loses momentum.

The full scope of China’s economic weakness is obscured by limited data, as the country prepares for a weeklong holiday beginning Feb. 18.

The $34 milllion in steel production and fabriation needed to refurbish North America’s longest suspension bridge, the Verrazano-which connects Brooklyn and Staten Island has been outsourced to China.