Beijing -- The detention of Rio Tinto executives on spying accusations has allegedly wreaked "havoc" on the world's second-largest iron ore miner's sales in China, as the nation's steel mills took a wait-and-see approach on ore imports from the Anglo- Australian conglomerate, Chinese State media reported on Wednesday.
A manager of a State-owned steel manufacturer in Shandong Province who refused to give his name said Rio's iron-ore sales network has been ruined as a result of the case, the National Business Daily newspaper reported.
"We had a meeting Monday and eventually decided to suspend iron ore imports from Rio until an official outcome of the case," he said.
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