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.

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%.

U.S. steel imports increase by 8.9% in December 2020

Japan's crude steel production increased 3.6% month-on-month in December last year