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World crude steel production 132.5 million tonnes in September

October 31, 2013

Worldsteel published September’s global crude steel production on October 21st. World crude steel production was 132.5 million metric tonnes, 7% higher than in September 2012 and 1% higher than in August 2013. Chinese production rose by 13% between September 2012 and 2013 to reach 65.4 million tonnes though production fell by 1% from August 2013 […]

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World crude steel production 130 million tonnes in August

September 23, 2013

Worldsteel published August’s global crude steel production on September 20th. World crude steel production was 130.4 million metric tonnes, 5.4% higher than in August 2012 and 1.1% lower than in July 2013. Chinese production increased by 13% between August 2012 and August 2013 to reach 66.3 million tonnes – more than 50% of world production. […]

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US long products imports flat in July

August 18, 2013

Based on reported import licenses (and after last month’s 34% drop), US long products imports were essentially flat, dropping by less than 0.5% to 238,000 short tons between June and July. In comparison, July long products imports were 166,000 tons in 2012, 180,000 tons in 2011, 232,000 tons in 2010, 104,000 tons in 2009, 270,000 […]

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US flat products imports up 5% in July

August 8, 2013

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports rose 5% from 607,000 short tons in June to 636,000 tons in July. July flat products imports in 2012 were 798,000 tons, in 2011 830,000 tons, in 2010 600,000 tons, and in 2009 291,000 tons. The change was due to higher hot rolled imports of almost […]

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US long products imports down 34% in June

July 22, 2013

Based on reported import licenses (and after a 75% increase in May), US long products imports dropped 34% from 340,000 short tons to 222,000 tons in June. In comparison, June long products imports were 216,000 tons in 2012, 267,000 tons in 2011, 220,000 in 2010, 105,000 tons in 2009, 269,000 tons in 2008 and 496,000 […]

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World crude steel production 136.3 million tonnes in May

June 24, 2013

Worldsteel published May’s global crude steel production on June 20th. World crude steel production was 136.3 million tonnes, 3.6% higher than in May 2012 and 0.2% lower on an average daily basis than April 2013. China production increased by 5.8 million tonnes between May 2012 and May 2013 to reach a monthly record of 67.0 […]

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