The Chinese government may pressure coal buyers including Baoshan Iron & Steel and Angang Group to redirect their purchases to American suppliers as part of a deal – set to be mediated by Commerce Secretary Ross this week – to boost U.S. imports. One challenge is that demand, unlike that for LNG which may also be part of the arrangements, grew by just 4% in the three months to April 30 on a year earlier. The main potential “victims” of the redirection could be miners from Australia which supplied 44% of China’s $22 billion of imports in the past year, with 97% accounted for by the bitumi...