{"id":392031,"date":"2026-04-22T11:43:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/392031\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:43:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:43:22","slug":"australias-bhp-ends-standoff-with-top-china-iron-ore-buyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/392031\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s BHP ends standoff with top China iron ore buyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\/commodities\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Commodities<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Prolonged negotiations highlighted Beijing&#8217;s push to cut steelmaking input prices<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260422 Western Australian Iron Ore Newman, WA\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A truck works at a BHP\u00a0iron ore mine\u00a0in Western Australia. Exports of the steelmaking material are key to the nation&#8217;s economy. \u00a9 BHP<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">CANBERRA &#8212; Australia&#8217;s BHP, the world&#8217;s largest listed miner, has reached a deal on\u00a0iron ore supplies\u00a0to\u00a0China Mineral Resources Group, ending a monthslong standoff seen as part of a broader push\u00a0by Beijing to exert more leverage over the price of the key steelmaking ingredient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commodities Prolonged negotiations highlighted Beijing&#8217;s push to cut steelmaking input prices A truck works at a BHP\u00a0iron ore&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24812,12913,138,3239,607,219,4726,25370,111,139,69,99439,37136,3010],"class_list":{"0":"post-392031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-australias","9":"tag-bhp","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-buyer","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-ends","15":"tag-iron","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-ore","20":"tag-standoff","21":"tag-top"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}