KIEV, Feb. 7 - Industrial Union of Donbas (IUD) has begun importing coking coal from Canada and Poland, the head of coke industry association Ukrkoks, Anatoly Starovoit said.

IUD is importing the coal for the Alchevsk Iron & Steel Works (AMK), as well as to the Dniprodzerzhynsk coke-chemical plant for the needs of the Dzerzhinsky Iron & Steel Works (DMK), he said.