主题：刚看到澳洲消息，中国接受了铁矿石33%的降幅，真的吗？ -- 威尔森

By: Reuters

7th July 2009

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian miner Vale said on Tuesday that China must choose between continuing to buy ore at an annually-revised benchmark price or switching to spot market purchases.

If China, the world's largest iron ore importer, opts to buy from Vale through the benchmark system, it must accept the iron ore price the company has already set with other Asian steel mills, said Vale CEO Roger Agnelli.

"The benchmark is given. It is established," said Agnelli at a news event. "The client chooses what he wants. The Chinese need to choose what they want."

Seeking a deeper 40 percent cut in annual term prices, Chinese steel mills rejected in May the 33 percent cut in iron ore benchmark prices that Asian steel mills and Australia's Rio Tinto agreed upon.

Traditionally, the price agreed upon by the first major miner and steel mill in annual negotiations becomes the benchmark for the rest of the industry.

北京时间7月7日晚，《悉尼先驱晨报》在其网站报导，力拓的铁矿石销售团队成员被上海市公安局拘留，四名员工中一人持澳大利亚护照，三人持中国护照。

本报记者独家获悉了四人身份——四人中身份最为显眼是澳籍华人胡士泰。作为力拓上海首席代表、哈默斯利铁矿中国区的总经理，他负责力拓在华矿石的销售工作。据知情人士透露，7月5日当天，随同其本人被相关部门带走的还有他的个人电脑。

一个不为外界所知的巧合的是，本报记者多方求证后获悉，首钢国际贸易工程公司矿业进出口公司总经理谭以新于7月7日被北京警方拘留，原因是涉嫌商业犯罪。

而有知情人士告诉记者，胡士泰与谭以新来往颇多，关系密切。