International trade protection measures continued to loom large over global steel markets over the past year - to which the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have created further challenges.
Alongside Fastmarkets' annual ranking of steelmakers by output, our correspondents around the world review developments in their regional steel sectorsStill, Fastmarkets' latest list of the world's largest steelmaking companies, based on steel output in 2019, continues to provide an interesting annual snapshot of the evolving geographical pattern of global steel production. In addition to the table itself, in the pages that follow a team of six of our global steel writers have provided reviews of the...