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Egypt's steel companies have filed a petition against rebar and wire rod imports from China, Turkey and Ukraine, one of its top steelmakers said on Tuesday, the latest move in a years-long quest to protect the fledging industry from low-priced imports.

BHP Billiton, the world's largest miner, revealed Wednesday it plans to keep ramping up iron-ore production in the face of plunging prices and a global oversupply of the steelmaking material.

Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co , Japan's top electric arc furnace steelmaker, said on Tuesday it would keep product prices unchanged in August for a seventh straight month.

Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad, has released the sum of Rs.2.85 billion to Pakistan Steel Mills on Monday

Russia's steel giant Severstal announced on Monday the sale of its North American plants to US companies for a total of $2.3 billion (1.7 billion euros).

China's biggest steel producing province of Hebei produced 15.47 million tonnes of crude steel in June, down 5.5 percent on the month, data from China's National Bureau of Statistics showed on Monday, as financial problems in the sector continued.