China Nov crude steel output down 3.2% on month as pollution curbs remain

China's crude steel output fell for the sixth consecutive month in November, slipping 3.2% from October, official data showed on Wednesday, as production restrictions to combat pollution continued and construction demand remained stagnant.
 

The world's top steel producer made 69.31 million tonnes of the industrial metal last month, compared with October's output of 71.58 million tonnes. That was down 22% from the same month a year earlier, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
 

Average daily crude steel output in November stood at 2.31 million tonnes, recovering fractionally from average output of 2.309 million tonnes in October, according to