Global steel production heading back up in 2021, but not yet to 2018-2019 annual levels

摘要

WSD's "most likely scenario" - based on WSD's assessment as of late March 2020 - calls for global steel produc?tion in 2020 to decline 12.9% to 1.632 billion metric tons. Then, in 2021, given WSD's "mid-low" scenario, it recovers only 6.6% to 1.739 billion metric tons. If so, global output next year would be less than that in 2018 and 2019 at 1.805 billion metric tons and 1.873 billion metric tons, respec?tively (Table 1).