The July rating was topped by China with 74 million tonnes (10.3% up from July 2016). Other steelmaking nations included in the top 10 were Japan (8.6 million tonnes, 4.3% down), India (8.4 million tonnes, 3.5% up), the United States (7.1 million tonnes, 5.6% up), South Korea (6.2 million tonnes, 2.3% up), Russia (5.6 million tonnes, 8% down), Germany (3.5 million tonnes, 3.6% up), Turkey (3.3 million tonnes, 27.8% up), Brazil (2.8 million tonnes, 1% up), and Italy (2.1 million tonnes, 1.7% up).
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The top 10 steelmakers in January-July 2017 were China with 491.6 million tonnes (5.1% up from the same period in 2016), Japan with 60.9 million tonnes (0.2% down), India with 58 million tonnes (5.4% up), the United States with 47.7 million tonnes (2.1% up), Russia with 40.93 million tonnes (0.5% down), South Korea with 40.9 million tonnes (3.5% up), Germany with 25.7 million tonnes (1.9% up), Turkey with 21.6 million tonnes (13.6% up), Brazil with 19.6 million tonnes (10.6% up), and Italy with 14.5 million tonnes (1.6% up).
In the seven months of 2017, all the 67 countries on the WSA rating increased total steel production by 4.6% year-over-year, to 977 million tonnes.
In January-July 2017, Ukraine remained 12th in the rating, having cut steel production by 15%, to 12.3 million tonnes year-over-year.
