worldsteelpublished April 2011’s crude steel production last Friday. Monthly world crude steel production declined 2.2% between March and April but daily crude production increased 1.1% due to the short April month. Countries with significant production declines included Austria and Slovakia which both dropped by over 10%, as well as Japan which fell by 8%. Poland stood out, in contrast, with an increase of 12%. As usual, all the data for April 2011 (and for a number of prior years) is in the Nerds spreadsheet below: