{"id":448719,"date":"2026-04-22T19:59:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/448719\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:59:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:59:28","slug":"australias-bhp-ends-standoff-with-top-china-iron-ore-buyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/448719\/","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.europesays.com\/ie\/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":448720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[73579,104627,79,38386,381,179,18,125389,19,17,5428,108004,65755,4612],"class_list":["post-448719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-australias","tag-bhp","tag-business","tag-buyer","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-ends","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-iron","tag-ore","tag-standoff","tag-top"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116450136869697037","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}