Total steel exports (including semis) from the world’s top 10 exporters have grown around 10% y-o-y to almost 185 million tonnes (mn t) in Jan-Sept’21 against 167.5 mn t seen in the same period of the previous year. The top 10 countries include China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and India as the top five. China leads the top 10 charts with a growth of 34% from 40.3 mn t in Jan-Sept’20 to 54.1 mn t in Jan-Sept’21.Russia’s volumes grew almost 21% from 20.5 mn t in Jan-Sept’20 to around 25 mn t in the same nine months in CY’21.

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