On July 26, the World Steel Association (WSA) released global crude steel production data for June. In June, 64 countries and regions in the world were included in the World Steel Association statistics for crude steel production of 159 million tons, an increase of 4.6%.

Among them, Asia's crude steel output was 116 million tons, up 7.4% year-on-year; EU crude steel output was 13.79 million tons, down 3.0% year-on-year; North American crude steel output was 9.87 million tons, down 0.2% year-on-year; South American crude steel production It was 3.56 million tons, down 3.1% year-on-year; the crude steel output in the Middle East was 3.11 million tons, up 3.5% year-on-year; the crude steel output of the CIS was 8.23 million tons, down 2.6% year-on-year.

From the first half of the year, global crude steel production in 2019 was 925.1 million tons, an increase of 4.9% year-on-year. Among them, the crude steel output in Asia was 660.2 million tons, up 7.4% year-on-year; the crude steel output in the EU region was 84.74 million tons, down 2.5% year-on-year; the crude steel output in North America was 60.13 million tons, up 1.4% year-on-year; Crude steel production was 50.5 million tons, which was flat year-on-year.

From the perspective of key countries and regions, in June, China's crude steel output was 87.53 million tons, an increase of 10.0%. India's crude steel output was 9.34 million tons, an increase of 4.0% year-on-year. Japan's crude steel output was 8.79 million tons, down 0.4% year-on-year. South Korea's crude steel output was 5.96 million tons, down 2.6% year-on-year. In the EU region, German crude steel production was 3.41 million tons in June, down 5.9% year-on-year; Italian crude steel production was 2.09 million tons, down 2.5% year-on-year; French crude steel production was 1.31 million tons, up 3.4% year-on-year; Steel production was 1.21 million tons, an increase of 2.3% year-on-year. US crude steel production in June was 7.28 million tons, an increase of 3.1% year-on-year. Brazil's crude steel output in June was 2.82 million tons, down 3.1% year-on-year. Turkey's crude steel output was 2.7 million tons, down 11.0% year-on-year. Ukrainian crude steel production was 1.66 million tons, down 3.0% year-on-year.