The world's biggest mining group delivered the downbeat assessment when issuing its quarterly production review. It showed strong gains in petroleum, iron ore, manganese and coal, compared with the previous September quarter, but declines in aluminium, diamonds and stainless steel materials.
China accounts for 20 per cent of BHP's sales by value, and the rapid growth of its economy has underpinned the boom in commodities prices over the past five years.
Although BHP said its fundamental view on the outlook for China had not changed, the group said the country had “not been immune to the global slowdown”.
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