World crude steel production was 145.3 million tonnes in August 2025, up 0.3 percent on the year, the World Steel Association reported on 24 September 2025, the only annual increase in the second half of the year to that point. The small rise came despite continued cuts in China, where output remained under pressure from weak domestic demand and the government's campaign against overcapacity. Production in the United States continued to grow behind the 50 percent tariff wall, and India kept expanding. The August figures, published together with the July data, confirmed that global output had settled into a pattern of modest decline: over the first eight months of 2025, production was running about 1.6 percent below the same period of 2024, with the March rebound after the Lunar New Year the only strong month of the year so far. Mills in most regions were operating cautiously, waiting for clearer signals on demand and trade policy.
Source: World Steel Association — https://worldsteel.org/media/press-releases/2025/
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