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China's Ansteel assessing US protest over plant deal: report

China revises up Q1 current account surplus
Beijing (AFP) July 5, 2010 - China said Monday it was revising upwards the size of its current account surplus for the first quarter of 2010, after discovering that a year-on-year fall was smaller than previously announced. The current account surplus -- the broadest measure of trade with the world -- reached 53.6 billion dollars in the first three months, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said on its website. That was 12.7 billion dollars more than the figure published in May, meaning the fall from the same period in 2009 narrowed to 32 percent from 48 percent announced previously. No explanation was offered for the change. In 2009, China's current account surplus dropped for the first time in eight years -- by 35 percent year-on-year to 284.1 billion dollars -- as the global crisis hit exports. Net inflow of direct investment into China totalled 15.5 billion dollars in the first quarter of 2010, compared with 17.5 billion dollars announced in May.
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Beijing (AFP) July 5, 2010
China's Anshan Iron and Steel Group is looking into a protest by American lawmakers against its deal to build steel plants in the United States, a report said Monday.

"I'm aware of it. We are researching the situation and mulling how to deal with it," said Li Jiangyu, secretary to the president of the Chinese company, in answer to a question about the protest, Dow Jones Newswires reported.

Li added that company president Zhang Xiaogang would fly to the United States Tuesday, but he didn't specify the reason for the trip.

The state-run Chinese mill, also known as Ansteel, in May signed an agreement with US steel mill Steel Development Company that includes the construction of five steel plants in the United States.

The first factory, to be built in Amory, Mississippi, will mainly target the southeastern United States and Latin American markets, the company said previously.

A group of 50 US Congressmen last week wrote a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urging an investigation into the deal.

"We are deeply concerned that their direct investment in an American steel company threatens American jobs and our national security," the lawmakers said in the letter.

"We believe that this investment allows the full force and financing of the Chinese government to exploit the American steel market from American soil."

The Chinese steel deal is the latest in a number of issues that have strained Sino-US ties in recent months, including trade disputes, the value of the Chinese currency and Google's spat with Beijing over censorship.

AFP's calls to Ansteel were not answered.



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