THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET OF STEEL AND IRON IN 2014-2015 PERIOD. PREVISIONS 2016

Anca Dragomirescu

Impact of Socio-economic and Technological Transformations at National, European and International Level (ISETT), 2015, vol. 10

Abstract: Looking at the broad picture, the world crude steel production rose with 2,8% in2015 (1.623 million tonnes) comparative with 2014 (1.670 million tonnes) confirm World SteelAssociation-WSA).The first producer of world is China, with 804 million tonnes in 2015 comparative 823million tonnes in 2014 (-2,3%).In the international top of steelmakers lists (40 countries) Romania occupe the position 37,with 3,3 million tonnes crude steel in 2015 comparative 3,2 million tonnes in 2014 (+5,4%).Though, at world level, the iron and steel industry to confront with more problems in thelast years: overcapacities, fall in the prices transactions of iron and steel products and the costs toimport the raw materials.To observe that, on 2014, the introduction of stricts regulations for the protection ofenvironmental medium, to determine a reduction of capacities for the production of crude steel, thecosts with modernization of steel works.

Keywords: economy; siderurgy sector; production; consumption; prices; European Union; Romania; China; environmental medium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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