Steel makers have urged the government for more measures to check rising imports from select group of countries including China which has produced 746.3 MT of crude steel in January-September period, over six-fold of the domestic output.

As per global body World Steel Association (worldsteel), India has produced 122.4 MT of crude steel in January-September. While in September alone China has produced 73.5 MT of crude steel, over 5-fold higher from 13.6 MT of domestic production.

As per market data, stainless steel is also unable to reach 100% capacity utilisation of the total installed capacity of 7.5 million tonnes. It remains around 60% only due to impact of imports.

The government has taken several measures to curb the imports to protect the competitiveness of domestic steel industry

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