14 December 2024: China has released its export figures for November, which rose by 15.9% year-on-year, to 9.28 MT, while over the first eleven months of 2024 overseas supplies of finished steel surged by 22.6%, to 101.15 MT. This indicates that the country’s export shipments are close to reaching the record high of 2015, when they totalled around 110 MT.