Japan's iron ore purchases from Australia and Brazil remained weak in April despite a slight recovery in overall iron ore imports during the month.

World crude steel production for the 64 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 169.5 million tonnes (Mt) in April 2021, a 23.3% increase compared to April 2020.

Steelmaker JSW Steel reported a 6% growth in the crude steel production of 4.19 million tonnes in the last quarter of the financial year 2021.

Broken down by districts, here’s production for the week ending April 17, 2021 in thousands of net tons: North East: 164; Great Lakes: 603; Midwest: 183; Southern: 747 and Western: 73 for a total of 1770.

The U.S. imported a total of 2,292,000 net tons (NT) of steel in March 2021.

Qinghai Crude Steel Output in Q1, 2021.

World crude steel production for the 64 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 169.2 million tonnes (Mt) in March 2021, a 15.2% increase compared to March 2020.

China saw surging commodity imports in the first quarter of this year, according to the General Administration of Customs.