Chinese steel mills told to stop buy Australian coal

Chinese officials inspect coal imported from Australia in port of Rizhao, Shandong province, (Jie Zhao, Corbis via Getty Images).

State-owned utilities and steel mills in China received verbal notice from China's customs to stop importing Australian thermal and coking coal with immediate effect, several sources close to the matter told S&P Global Platts Oct. 9. State-owned utilities including Huaneng Power International, Datang International Power Generation Company, Huadian Power International and Zhejiang Electric Power Co Ltd were heard to have received the verbal notice from China's customs, sources said…. https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/coal/100920-chinese-state-owned-end-users-given-verbal-notice-to-stop-importing-australian-coal-sources