China’s iron ore imports in August rose for the first time in five months, increasing 10.1% over July, although demand remained lacklustre amid Beijing’s steel output controls. The world’s biggest iron ore consumer brought in 97.49 million tonnes of the steelmaking ingredient last month, data from the General Administration of Customs showed on Tuesday. That …

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