It plans to boost production of semi-finished steel slabs from 5m to 14m tonnes.

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By choking off the trafficking routes, they hope to bankrupt and tame Wei's United Wa State Army, which runs a semi-autonomous enclave on the Myanmar side, where they allegedly control yaba production and trade.

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Tata, which mines all the iron ore and coal it needs, now aims to carry out primary steel production close to its iron-ore deposits, and then ship semi-finished steel for finishing close to foreign consumer markets.

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