{"id":179860,"date":"2025-09-30T11:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179860\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T11:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:17:08","slug":"china-bans-new-bhp-iron-ore-cargoes-as-pricing-dispute-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179860\/","title":{"rendered":"China Bans New BHP Iron Ore Cargoes as Pricing Dispute Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">China\u2019s state-run iron ore buyer has told major steelmakers and traders to temporarily halt purchases of all new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/BHP:AU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">BHP Group <\/a>cargoes, escalating a pricing dispute that risks upending one of the mining giant\u2019s most important trading partnerships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/2311917D:CH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">China Mineral Resources Group Co.<\/a>, created by Beijing to bolster the country\u2019s sway in the global iron ore trade, asked domestic buyers this week to suspend purchases of any dollar-denominated seaborne cargoes from the miner, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private deliberations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s state-run iron ore buyer has told major steelmakers and traders to temporarily halt purchases of all new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,3686,99,512,115782,26287,115781,115784,18466,18461,171,115783,39896],"class_list":["post-179860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-china","tag-china-mineral-resources-grou","tag-china-renminbi-spot","tag-generic-1st-ioe-future","tag-guinea","tag-imports","tag-industries","tag-markets","tag-panmure-liberum-ltd","tag-raw-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}