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Tata Steel posts Q3 loss on cheaper imports

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Reuters MUMBAI

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Tata Steel Ltd swung to a loss in its third quarter, hit by cheap imports into India and Europe and sluggish demand.

Net loss at Tata Steel, a unit of the hotels-to-automobiles Tata group, was 21.27 billion rupees ($314.53 million) in the quarter ended Dec. 31, as against a profit of 1.57 billion rupees in the year-ago period.

Revenue dropped 16.5 percent to 280.39 billion rupees as against 336.33 billion rupees a year ago.

($1 = 67.6250 rupees)

(Reporting by Promit Mukherjee; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)

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First Published: Feb 04 2016 | 7:08 PM IST

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