BHP execs call on Japanese steel mills, who reject short-term pricing

摘要

BHP Billiton executives met Japan's steelmakers this week for annual coking coal tonnage and price talks, but have not proposed "hard numbers", a north Asian source said Wednesday. Japanese steel mills were said to have rejected the supplier's proposal for short-term pricing for coking coal contracts. BHP is an equal joint venture partner of Japan's Mitsubishi Corp. in the BHP Billiton - Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA), the world's largest exporter of metallurgical coal produced from Australia.