[TheForge] Price of steel & scrap

[Andy Vida]

Question: is the quality of the steel coming out of China any good, or
it is crap?

schade@acegroup.cc wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, April 1, 2004, at 12:59  AM, Mike wrote:
> 
> >   Now the Chinese steel industry is ramping
> > up fast, producing something like half the world's steel.  FWIW,
> > - Mike
> >
> 
> Mike, The chart that came with this article said that China's 2003
> steel production
> was 220.1 million metric tons. Japan is second with 110.5 and USA third
> with 90.4.
> China's number was a 21.1% increase over 2002. USA was -1.3% over same
> period.
>