CISA: Members' daily crude steel output drops in late June

Daily crude steel output among the member mills of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) declined during the last ten days of June, with the tonnage lower by 3.6% or 76,000 tonnes/day from the mid-June period to average 2.02 million t/d, according to the latest release from the association on July 8.

In addition, the average was lower by a larger 4.9% compared with the level over the corresponding period last year, the CISA survey results indicated. Based on the same dataset, the association estimated that daily crude steel output among both member mills and non-member mills averaged 2.66 million t/d in