According to the statistics from the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), as of the week ended on September 4th, the US’ domestic production of crude steel totaled around 1.8 million tons, down by 0.6% week on week.

The capacity utilization rate was 78.3%, down by 5.4% compared to same year last year.

Year-to-date crude production totaled 64.64 million short tons, with a capacity utilization rate of 79%; this represents a 5.4% increase from the 61.32 million short tons produced during the same period last year, when the capacity utilization rate was 77.1%.