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World crude steel production up 15.2% y/y in March

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Update time : 2021-04-23 17:13:13
World crude steel production for the 64 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 169.2-million tonnes in March, marking a 15.2% increase year-on-year.

Global crude steel production for the first three months of 2021 was 486.9-million tonnes, representing a 10% year-on-year increase.

While Asia and Oceania produced 356.9-million tonnes of crude steel in the first quarter of 2021, an increase of 13.2% compared with the first quarter of 2020, the European Union produced 37.8-million tonnes of crude steel in the first quarter of 2021, up by 3.1% year-on-year.

Crude steel production in North America in the first three months of 2021, meanwhile, was 28.1-million tonnes, a decrease of 5.2% compared with the first quarter of 2020.

The Commonwealth of Independent States produced 26.2-million tonnes of crude steel in the first quarter of 2021, an increase of 3.1% over the first quarter of 2020.

Africa produced 3.9-million tonnes of steel for the period, a 25.9% year-on-year increase.
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