Economics

China’s Steel Production Has the Weakest October Since 2021

A steel factory in Huai'an, Jiangsu, China.

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China’s steel production continued to slide in October on softening domestic demand and deeper output cuts at mills.

Crude industrial steel production dropped 12% last month from a year earlier to 72 million tons, the statistics bureau said on Friday. That left the year-to-dateBloomberg Terminal figure 4% behind last year’s pace.