According to data released by the Japan Iron and Steel Federation on January 31, Japan’s steel exports in 2018 fell 4.2% from the previous year to 36.52 million tons

Recently, the Indian Ministry of Steel said in a report that in the first nine months of 2018-19 (April-December 2018)

Brazilian iron ore exports to China amounted to US$792 million, down 3.65% year-on-year.

ArcelorMittal Steel recently announced its fourth quarterly report for 2018. The data shows that its iron ore output in the fourth quarter of 2018 reached 14.9 million tons, an increase of 3.4% (400,000 tons), an increase of 3.5% (500,000 tons).

Indian steel minister Chaudhary Birender Singh said on Tuesday that India’s steel consumption this year is expected to outpace the United States.

In the fourth quarter of 2018, Champion Iron's fine iron powder production was 1.79 million tons (wet tons), a decrease of 70,000 tons (4%) from the third quarter and a fine iron grade of 66%.

In the past seven years, the operating profit has broken 5 trillion won. It is the first environmentally-recognized steel company in Korea.

Statistics from Brazil's foreign trade sector show that Vale's S11D Caragas iron mine in Pará exports 5.4 million tons of iron ore in January, up 40% from 3.86 million tons in the same period last year.

As Indian iron ore producers plan to increase iron ore production in the fiscal year 2019-2020 (April 1, 2019 - March 21, 2020), Indian iron ore production is expected to reach 225 million tons in fiscal year 2019-2020.

According to foreign media reports, due to system failure, Japan’s leading steel company, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Co., Ltd.’s production and profits fell in 2017-2018. The company plans to produce quarterly average crude steel output in fiscal year 2019-2020 (2019.04.01-2020.03.31).

On February 25, the Japan Iron & Steel Federation released data showing that in January, Japan's crude steel output fell 9.8% year-on-year to 8.14 million tons, a record low of 7.66 million tons in July 2009, compared with 2018. Monthly production fell by 3.8%.

According to data from the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Trade, in February, Brazil’s iron ore exports were 28.9 million tons, up 21.6% year-on-year.

According to the analysis, at the beginning of February, during the Chinese New Year holiday, the factories stopped production and the demand for coal consumption was suspended.