World crude steel production was 443.0 Mt in the first three months of 2020, down by 1.4% compared to the same period in 2019. Asia produced 315.2 Mt of crude steel in the first quarter of 2020, a decrease of 0.3% over the first quarter of 2019. The EU produced 38.3 Mt of crude steel in the first quarter of 2020, down by 10.0% compared to the same quarter of 2019. North America’s crude steel production in the first three months of 2020 was 29.5 Mt, a decrease of 4.0% compared to the first quarter of 2019.
Due to the ongoing difficulties presented by the Covid-19 pandemic, many of this month’s figures are estimates from national and regional associations, which may be revised with next month’s production update.

• China’s produced 79.0 Mt of crude steel in March 2020, a decrease of 1.7% compared to March 2019.
• India estimates 8.7 Mt of crude steel production in March 2020, down 13.9% on March 2019.
• Japan estimates 8.2 Mt of crude steel production in March 2020, down 9.7% on March 2019.
• South Korea produced 5.8 Mt of crude steel in March 2020, down 7.9% on March 2019.
• Germany estimates 2.9 Mt of crude steel production in March 2020, down 20.9% on March 2019.
• Italy produced 1.4 Mt of crude steel in March 2020, down by 40.2% on March 2019.
• France estimates 1.2 Mt of crude steel production in March 2020, a 13.2% decrease compared to March 2019.
• Spain produced 1.2 Mt of crude steel in March 2020, down 14.6% on March 2019.
• The US produced 7.2 Mt of crude steel in March 2020, a decrease of 6.0% compared to March 2019.
• Russia estimates 5.9 Mt of crude steel production in March 2020, down 4.4% on March 2019.
• Ukraine produced 1.8 Mt of crude steel in March 2020, down 10.3% on March 2019.
• Brazil produced 2.6 Mt of crude steel production for March 2020, down by 8.2% on March 2019.
• Turkey’s crude steel production for March 2020 was 3.1 Mt, up by 4.1% on March 2019.

_{(World Steel Association)}