India's crude steel production fell by 10.6 per cent to 99.6 million tonnes (MT) in 2020, according to the worldsteel.

In December 2020, U.S. steel mills shipped 7,049,785 net tons, a 4.4 percent increase from the 6,753,447 net tons shipped in the previous month.

The increase took overall shipments for the last year to 407mn, slightly higher than a government-set target for the year of 400mn t.

In 2020, China's steel bar output was 266.391 million tons.

Late January 2021, the key steel enterprises produced 23.9426 million tons of crude steel, 21.1232 million tons of pig iron, 24.1601 million tons of steel and 3.6557 million tons of coke.

In December, 2020, the industrial power generation of the whole region was 19.1 billion kwh, up 5.1% year on year.

Hebei Crude Steel Production increased in 2020.

China imported 3.57mn t of coking coal last month, down by 4pc from 3.72mn t in November.