Broken down by districts, here’s production for the week ending December 3, 2022 in thousands of net tons: North East: 139; Great Lakes: 541; Midwest: 196; Southern: 684 and Western: 70 for a total of 1630.

U.S. steel mills shipped 7,210,301 net tons, a 12.2 percent decrease from the 8,215,071 net tons shipped in October 2021.

In November, the largest steel import permit applications were for Canada (561,000 NT, down 11% from October final), Mexico (422,000 NT, down 38%).

This week, HBIS Group finalized the tender price of ferrosilicon 75B in December at 8700 CNY/T.

The 2301 ferrosilicon contract price on ZCE closed at 8636 yuan per ton on December 9.

The country imported 10.83 million tonnes of thermal coal in November, the Coalmint data showed, compared with 12.03 million tonnes in October and 9.45 million tonnes in November 2021.

South African government has projected a funding gap of $40 billion (279.1 billion yuan) in its energy transition plans from coal to clean energy.

China is making contributions to the FIFA World Cup finals that are underway in Qatar.