Australian miners are calling on Beijing to suspend a new coal-quality testing regime, which they claim is unfairly blocking cargoes at Chinese ports and increasing costs for exporters at a time when the seaborne coal trade is under severe stress.
The environmental tests are part of
Beijing’s “war on pollution”, and when combined with a trend towards increasing use of domestically produced coal, are leading to a dramatic decline in coal imports by China, the world’s biggest consumer of thermal coal.
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