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Based on 3 verified sources covering Thailand:

TOKYO -- China's steel dumping may accelerate due to U.S. tariffs, as it could have an effect on Chinese manufacturing activity, Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel warned on Friday. [1]

Business dealsNippon Steel investment in US Steel could push debt above equity Planned spending tied to acquisition fuels concerns over financial burden Nippon Steel aims to keep its debt-to-equity ratio at 0.7 or below -- possibly a tall order after... [2]

TOKYO -- Amid falling prices for steel and other commodities, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal's group pretax profit likely shrank to between 170 billion yen and 190 billion yen ($1.39 billion to $1.55 billion) for the nine months ended in December, rou... [3]

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