World’s biggest importer of iron ore, China has imported 221.504 million tonnes of iron ore during January to July 2007. Its imports during July amounted to 33.605 million tonnes.
China imported iron ore from 27 countries during January to July 2007, but the top 3 exporting countries Australia, Brazil and India with 189.606 million tonnes account for 85.6% of China’s total iron ore import volumes.
The details are as under
| Rank | Country | Jul'07 | Jan-Jul'07 |
| Total | 33.605 | 221.504 | |
| 1 | Australia | 12.438 | 83.742 |
| 2 | Brazil | 10.015 | 54.264 |
| 3 | India | 6.241 | 51.600 |
| 4 | South Africa | 1.249 | 7.498 |
| 5 | Canada | 0.520 | 3.187 |
| 6 | Peru | 0.405 | 2.916 |
| 7 | Iran | 0.428 | 2.913 |
| 8 | Russian Federation | 0.241 | 2.900 |
| 9 | Indonesia | 0.474 | 2.243 |
| 10 | Kazakhstan | 0.132 | 1.663 |
| 11 | Chile | 0.265 | 1.602 |
| 12 | Venezuela | 0.264 | 1.534 |
| 13 | Mauritania | 0.148 | 0.878 |
| 14 | Ukraine | 0.172 | 0.877 |
| 15 | North Korea | 0.120 | 0.636 |
| 16 | New Zealand | 0.000 | 0.629 |
| 17 | Thailand | 0.197 | 0.591 |
| 18 | Viet Nam | 0.070 | 0.522 |
| 19 | Malaysia | 0.075 | 0.397 |
| 20 | Mexico | 0.000 | 0.382 |
| Others | 0.151 | 0.530 | |
In million tonnes
(Sourced from MySteel.net)