According to the Japanese Ministry of Trade (METI), Japanese demand for crude steel in the first quarter of 2014 is expected total 27.85 million mt, decreasing by 1.4 percent from the fourth quarter output forecast made in the third ...
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In November this year, Japan's industrial production increased by 0.1 percent from the previous month and rose by five percent from November in the previous year, according to the preliminary indices of the Industrial Production report ...
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According to the Brazil Steel Institute (IABr), Brazilian crude steel production in the first 11 months of the current year amounted to 31.52 million metric tons, 1.4 percent lower year on year. In the same period, Brazilian rolled steel ...
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China will encourage Chinese steel enterprises suffering from overcapacity to transfer their businesses to overseas markets where the steel market is still very big, a top official was quoted in a statement published on the website of the ...
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According to the Brazil Steel Institute (IABr), Brazilian crude steel production in the first 11 months of the current year amounted to 31.52 million metric tons, 1.4 percent lower year on year. In the same period, Brazilian rolled steel ...
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In the January-November period of the current year, Kazakhstan produced 3.164 million mt of crude steel, down 11.1 percent year on year, according to the State Statistics Committee of Kazakhstan. Production of flat steel in Kazakhstan in ...
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Overcapacity and low prices are eating into steel companies' profits, an industry specialist said. Zhang Changfu, secretary-general of the China Iron and Steel Association, said on Sunday that the profits of China's steel companies in the ...
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According to statistics released by the Argentine Iron &Steel Institute, the country’s output of steel products totaled 469,000 tons in November, soaring by 18.7% in comparison of 395,400 tons in the same month of 2012. In the ...
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The Steel Chamber Argentina reported that steel production in November was 18.7 percent higher (395,400 tons) compared to November last year.The increase is largely explained by some plant outages made last year resulting from investment ...
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World crude steel production in November this year increased by 3.6 percent year on year to 127.36 million metric tons, while a 5.14 percent decline was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association ...
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In the January-November period this year, finished steel apparent use in Latin America and the Caribbean totaled 57 million metric tons, one percent higher compared with the same period in 2012, according to Alacero, the Latin American ...
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China's average daily crude steel output fell for the third straight 10-day period as it declined 3.7 percent in the first 10 days of December, data from the China Iron and Steel Association showed Tuesday. The daily output stood at 2.013 ...
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In November this year, Italian crude steel output decreased by 4.4 percent year on year to 2.148 million metric tons, according to the figures released by Italian steel producers' association Federacciai. November is the 20th month in a row ...
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As of December 16, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 83.844 million mt, indicating a decrease of 975,000 mt or 1.15 percent week on week, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency . As of the same date, the ...
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On December 17, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in early December (Dec. 1-10) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China totaled 1.6951 million ...
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