China  unveiled  updated regulations for entry into the iron and steel scrap processing 

industry Friday, its latest move as part of a battle waged against induction furnace ope

rators -- this time by starving them of a key raw material: scrap. 

The   sale  of scrap to  induction furnace-based producers of construction steel will  be 

forbidden, according  to  regulations  that  take  effect  from  March 31, 2017, released  

by  the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. 

Selling scrap to operators of electric arc furnaces smaller than 30 mt will also become il

legal, with with exception of high-alloy EAFs, the ministry said. 

China  has set the complete elimination of induction furnaces as the cornerstone of this 

year's supply side structural reforms in steel, China Iron & Steel Association chairman M

a Guoqiang said last week.