On August 23, the World Steel Association (WSA) released global crude steel production data for July 2022. In July, the crude steel output of the 64 countries and regions included in the statistics of the World Steel Association was 149.3 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 6.5%.

In July, the crude steel output in Africa was 1.2 million tons, down 5.4% year-on-year; the crude steel output in Asia and Oceania was 110.1 million tons, down 5.2% year-on-year; the EU (27 countries) crude steel output was 11.7 million tons, down 6.7% year-on-year ; Crude steel output of other European countries was 3.5 million tons, down 16.5% year-on-year; Middle East crude steel output was 3.2 million tons, up 24.2% year-on-year; North American crude steel output was 9.6 million tons, down 5.4% year-on-year; Russia and other CIS The output of crude steel in South America and Ukraine was 6.4 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 29.1%; the crude steel output in South America was 3.6 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 7.8%.

Judging from the top 10 steel-producing countries, in July, China's crude steel output was 81.4 million tons, down 6.4% year-on-year; India's crude steel output was 10.1 million tons, up 3.2% year-on-year; Japan's crude steel output was 7.3 million tons, year-on-year Down 8.5%; U.S. crude steel production was 7 million tons, down 6.4% year-on-year; South Korea’s crude steel production was 6.1 million tons, down 0.6% year-on-year; Russia’s estimated crude steel production was 5.5 million tons, down 13.2% year-on-year; Steel production was 3 million tons, down 2.0% year-on-year; Brazil’s crude steel production was 2.8 million tons, down 8.7% year-on-year; Turkey’s crude steel production was 2.7 million tons, down 20.7% year-on-year; Iran’s crude steel production was 2 million tons, down 20.7% year-on-year An increase of 34.1%.