{"id":73953,"date":"2026-07-27T16:46:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/?p=73953"},"modified":"2026-07-27T16:46:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:46:03","slug":"china-steel-inventories-increase-in-mid-jul26-amid-weak-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/?p=73953&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"China: Steel inventories increase in mid-Jul&#8217;26 amid weak consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Inventories rise despite slight drop in crude steel output<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Finished steel production rises 2.5% from early Jul&#8217;26<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) reported that total steel inventories at key CISA-affiliated industries stood at around 18.13 million tonnes (mnt) during mid-July (11-20 July 2026), marking an increase of 1.36 mnt or 8.1% from 16.77 mnt in early-July.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, inventory levels rose by 230,000 tonnes (t) or 1.3% m-o-m from 17.90 mnt recorded in the same period last month. Furthermore, inventories increased by 2.47 mnt or 15.8% y-o-y from 15.66 mnt recorded in mid-July 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The rise in inventories was largely driven by weak downstream consumption. Heavy rainfall in southern China, high temperatures in the north and typhoon-related disruptions disrupted outdoor construction activity. At the same time, subdued real estate activity and delays in infrastructure project execution further slowed demand, particularly for construction steel.<\/p>\n<p>Production volumes:<\/p>\n<p>The average daily crude steel production of CISA-affiliated mills stood at around 2.015 mnt in mid-July, down by 0.4% from 2.02 mnt recorded in early-July.<\/p>\n<p>Average daily finished steel output stood at around 1.92 mnt in mid-July, up by 2.5% from 1.82 mnt in early-July. Furthermore, y-o-y, finished steel output declined by 7.3% y-o-y from mid-July 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Average daily pig iron output stood at 1.841 mnt in mid-July, down by 1.3% from 1.865 mnt in early-July. Furthermore, pig iron production was down by 5.3% y-o-y.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inventories rise despite slight drop in crude steel output Finished steel production rises 2.5% from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[313],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iron-steel"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-2026-07-27T164546.338.jpg?v=1785149158",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-2026-07-27T164546.338-150x150.jpg?v=1785149158",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-2026-07-27T164546.338-300x169.jpg?v=1785149158",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-2026-07-27T164546.338-768x432.jpg?v=1785149158",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-2026-07-27T164546.338-1024x576.jpg?v=1785149158",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-2026-07-27T164546.338.jpg?v=1785149158",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-2026-07-27T164546.338.jpg?v=1785149158",1280,720,false],"covernews-slider-full":["https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-2026-07-27T164546.338-1115x715.jpg?v=1785149158",1115,715,true],"covernews-slider-center":["https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-2026-07-27T164546.338-800x500.jpg?v=1785149158",800,500,true],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-2026-07-27T164546.338-1024x576.jpg?v=1785149158",1024,576,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-2026-07-27T164546.338-540x340.jpg?v=1785149158",540,340,true],"covernews-medium-square":["https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-2026-07-27T164546.338-400x250.jpg?v=1785149158",400,250,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Biz Trend 24","author_link":"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/author\/online24"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/?cat=313&#038;lang=en\" rel=\"category\">Iron &amp; Steel<\/a>","tag_info":"Iron &amp; Steel","comment_count":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-2026-07-27T164546.338.jpg?v=1785149158","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73955,"href":"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73953\/revisions\/73955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}