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Japan’s domestic steel consumption down 3.1 percent in Jan-Aug

Thursday, 17 October 2024 13:36:00 (GMT+3)   |   Istanbul
       

In August this year, domestic steel product consumption in Japan amounted to 3.83 million metric tons, down by 9.0 percent compared to July and by 9.4 percent year on year, according to the data released by the Japan Iron and Steel Association (JISF). Meanwhile, in the January-August period of 2024, domestic steel consumption in the country decreased by 3.1 percent year on year to 28.92 million metric tons.

In the first eight months of the given year, steel product consumption in the construction sector in Japan moved down by 4.0 percent to 5.63 million metric tons, while steel product consumption in the Japanese automotive sector amounted to 7.06 million metric tons, down 1.8 percent, both on year-on-year basis. In the given period, Japan’s shipbuilding industry consumed 1.94 million metric tons of steel products, up 3.8 percent compared to the same period of the previous year.


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