India's crude steel production fell by 10.6 per cent to 99.6 million tonnes (MT) in 2020, according to the worldsteel.

In December 2020, U.S. steel mills shipped 7,049,785 net tons, a 4.4 percent increase from the 6,753,447 net tons shipped in the previous month.

In 2020, China's steel bar output was 266.391 million tons.

Late January 2021, the key steel enterprises produced 23.9426 million tons of crude steel, 21.1232 million tons of pig iron, 24.1601 million tons of steel and 3.6557 million tons of coke.

Hebei Crude Steel Production increased in 2020.

The country produced 30.14mn t of crude stainless steel in 2020, up by 2.51pc from 2019.

China's steel sector registered output expansion last year, industrial data showed.

The output of steel reached 4.82 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 57.4%.