For the month of July 2019, U.S. steel mills shipped 8,115,103 net tons.

Brazilian iron ore export volumes decreased by 15.48% year on year in August.

China’s crude steel production for July 2019 was 85.2 Mt, an increase of 5.0% compared to July 2018.

The U.S. imported a total of 3,028,000 net tons (NT) of steel in July 2019.

The country's coal output surged 12.2 percent year-on-year last month to 320 million tonnes.

Crude steel and steel-product output rose 9.9 percent and 11.4 percent to 492 million tons and 587 million tons, respectively.

Own coal production in 2Q 2019 increased by 18.1% to 1.5Mt.

Total steel shipments in 2Q 2019 were 4.3% higher at 22.8Mt as compared with 21.8Mt for 1Q 2019.