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.

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.

Hot dipped galvanized sheet and strip, down 7 percent, hot rolled sheet, down 9 percent and cold rolled sheet, down 10 percent.

This was a 32.6% increase from the 2,052,000 permit tons recorded in February and a 43.2% increase from the February final imports total of 1,900,000.

The World Steel Association (worldsteel) released its Short Range Outlook (SRO) for 2021 and 2022.

The World Steel Association (worldsteel) today announced the new World Champions of the 15th steelChallenge.

The World Steel Association (worldsteel) has recognised 9 companies as Steel Sustainability Champions for their work in 2020.