China August iron ore imports up 3.1% y/y, customs data shows

Business Recorder reported that iron ore arrivals in China rose 0.4% in August from July and climbed 3.1% compared with a year earlier. Customs figures released on Tuesday by the General Administration of Customs put the August volume at 108.54 million metric tons. China, which is the world's largest consumer of this steelmaking input, brought in that quantity during the month.

From January to August 2026, the country's shipments of the commodity reached 845.27 million tons, according to the same release. That cumulative volume is 5.5% higher than in the same stretch a year earlier. Both the monthly and the year-to-date numbers therefore come from one official customs dataset published on Tuesday.