{"id":211145,"date":"2019-03-21T19:35:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T22:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=211145"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:37:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:37:24","slug":"raw-steel-production-declined-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/raw-steel-production-declined-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Raw steel production declined in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rio de Janeiro \u2013 Brazilian raw steel production came out to 2.7 million tons in February, down 1.7% from a year ago. Year-to-date through February, raw steel output was up 0.5% from a year ago, to 55.6 million tons.<\/p>\n<p>Industry association\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acobrasil.org.br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Instituto A\u00e7o Brasil<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reported this Thursday (21) that output dropped the most for flat-rolled steel, which was down 7.9% to 1.7 million tons in February, and 5.5% to 3.51 million tons in January and February combined.<\/p>\n<p>Apparent consumption of steel products was 1.6 million tons in February, up 3.7% year-on-year, and 3.2 million tons in January and February, down 3.2 million tons year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Instituto A\u00e7o Brasil<\/em> also reported that domestic sales climbed 2.8% to 1.5 million tons. January and February combined saw 2.8 million tons of steel sold in Brazil, down 0.7% year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Imports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Steel imports were up 28.5% in volume and 13.3% in value year-on-year in February, with 203,000 tons purchased and USD 205 million spent. In January and February, 350,000 tons were imported to Brazil, up 1.3% year-on-year, with expenditure coming out to USD 417 million, down 1.2%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-211143\">Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil saw 2.7 million tons manufactured, down 1.7% from a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":211143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[7506,4642,178,377,4024,3757],"class_list":{"0":"post-211145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-flat-rolled-steel","9":"tag-importacao-en","10":"tag-importacao","11":"tag-imports","12":"tag-instituto-aco-brasil","13":"tag-steel"},"wps_subtitle":"Brazil saw 2.7 million tons manufactured, down 1.7% from a year ago. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}