Broken down by districts, here’s production for the week ending March 5, 2022 in thousands of net tons: North East: 166; Great Lakes: 608; Midwest: 176; Southern: 743 and Western: 69 for a total of 1762.

From January to February 2022, China's pig iron output was 132.13 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 10.8%.

American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported that the U.S. imported a total of 3,079,000 net tons (NT) of steel in January 2022.

American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported that steel import permit applications for the month of February totaled 2,274,000 net tons (NT)*.

For the month of January 2022, U.S. steel mills shipped 7,757,672 net tons, a 1.4 percent decrease from the 7,871,639 net tons shipped in the previous month, December 2021.

Broken down by districts, here’s production for the week ending February 19, 2022 in thousands of net tons: North East: 171; Great Lakes: 601; Midwest: 192; Southern: 729 and Western: 71 for a total of 1764.

The country mainly bought steel from China, with 5 million tonnes valued at 4.38 billion USD, accounting for 40.3 percent and 38 percent of the total volume and turnover, respectively.

Note: this release incorporates revisions to data for June through November 2021 released by the U.S. Census Bureau in February 2022.