Seshagiri Rao said recently that the Indian steelmaker has signed pacts with overseas miners to buy coking coal at $230 a ton for the current quarter, compared with $290/ton in the October-December period. However weaker rupee will offset those cost savings, he added.
The rupee has slipped about 7% against the U.S. dollar since the end of September, making imports costlier.
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