CISA: Members' daily crude steel output marks time in mid-April

Daily crude steel output among the member mills of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) held largely steady during April 11-20, with the tonnage edging up by a negligible 0.4% or 7,000 tonnes/day from this month's first ten days to average 2.11 million t/d, according to the latest release from the association on April 23.

Despite the small gain, the average represented a large on-year decline of 5.3% compared with the production level over the corresponding period last year, the results of the CISA survey indicated. Based on the same dataset, the association estimated that daily crude steel output among both member mills and non-member