Crude steel output in Hebei down 24.8% YoY in Q1, 2022.

China exported 4.977 million tons of steel in April 2022, an increase of 32000 tons over the previous month, a year-on-year decrease of 37.6%.

Tangshan's crude steel output was 130 million tons in 2021, a year-on-year decrease of 9%.

Analysis said that the demand in April may be lower than expected, restraining the rise of steel prices.

Over the past two years, Iran's steel industry has been developing, and has maintained tenth of the top steel producers in the world.

Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported that the U.S. imported a total of 2,339,000 net tons (NT) of steel in February 2022.

In the week ending on March 19, 2022, US domestic raw steel production was 1,742,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 80.2 percent.

The daily output marked an increase of 4.61 percent from that recorded in early March, according to the China Iron and Steel Association.