NBS: China's rebar output drops 13.5% YoY over Jan-Apr

China's nationwide rebar output over the first four months in 2026 posted a 13.5% on-year fall to 56.84 million tonnes, according to the latest release from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on May 21.

This represented a larger decline compared to the 12.3% on-year drop recorded in the first quarter of this year and marked the lowest cumulative tonnage for the first four months in over a decade, Mysteel Global noted. In April alone, China produced 15.11 million tonnes of reinforcing bar, with the