For the month of August 2019, U.S. steel mills shipped 8,472,088 net tons, a 4.4 percent increase from the 8,115,103 net tons shipped in the previous month.

Korea imported 22728.43 tons of ferrosilicon (>55%) for the month of August.

Japan imported 35490.151 tons of ferrosilicon (>55%) in August.

Japan imported 2578 tons of ferrosilicon (≤55%) in August.

China’s crude steel production for August 2019 was 87.3 Mt, an increase of 9.3% compared to August 2018.

AISI reported that the U.S. imported a total of 2,000,000 net tons (NT) of steel in August 2019.

Of the total coal imports in July 2019, non-coking coal shipment was at 12.66 MT.

In the week ending on September 14, 2019, US domestic raw steel production was 1,811,000 net tons.