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RIO TINTO, the mining giant, has agreed to reduce the price of the iron ore it sells to Japan's Nippon Steel by 33% compared with last year.
The deal is important because -- with Nippon being the world's second-largest steel producer -- it is likely to set the benchmark across the industry and could force Chinese steelmakers to give up their attempts to get iron ore prices cut by as much as 50% which would have returned them to 2007 levels.See the full content of this document
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Rio Cuts Ore Price to Key Buyer by a Third
Sam Walsh, head of Rio Tinto's iron ore oper...
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