Nippon Steel, Japan’s largest steel company acquired US Steel. It would be in their best interest to boost steel production after buying it 🇯🇵🇺🇸
Edit: It also seems that Japanese steelmakers are currently declining due to fierce competition from China, who is going thru a real estate slump and flooded the market with cheap steel. There is also decreasing domestic demand, manpower shortages and tariffs.
So now Japan is shifting operations overseas to the US and India
jamie9910 on
The leftist Western-haters/traitors of reddit won’t like this.
Already the fastest growing advanced economy in the world and now steel production showing signs of growth. The “isolated” “failing” American economy doesn’t seem to be doing too bad at all.
DrBix on
So… we’re winning at something?
cowauthumbla on
That’s a very loud headline. But the reality is that Japan had a big drop, while the US stayed almost at the same level.
The data I found: the US produced 79 million tons of steel in 2015 and 82 million tons in 2025. Japan fell from 105 to 81.
So this headline is so misleading it’s honestly funny, pure manipulation instead of actual numbers. And it’s also funny that Trump repeated it, which just shows he literally has nothing real to brag about.
And there’s a second point that also matters: what kind of steel are we even talking about? It’s very different products, and just the total tonnage doesn’t mean it brings more profit than a smaller volume of higher-quality steel.
For example, stainless steel production: the EU produced 6.1 million tons in 2024, while the US produced 2 million tons in 2024 and 2+million tons in Japan. A certain type of steel can have lower volume but be more expensive. There’s also electrical steel and other specialized types.
+ The reduction in steel production is also linked to newer, more advanced designs that are thinner and lighter.
+ of course, when a country moves from industrialization to a high-tech economy, steel production will also decline.
Overall, steel is a very complex and diverse product, so writing such useless, oversimplified headlines makes no sense
The news here isn’t that US steel is up, it’s that Japanese steel is down.
NuclearWasteland on
How we doing on aluminum, while we’re here.
CaulkusAurelis on
Wow, it turns out Japan is better at producing steel in the US that actual Americans
GiganticBlumpkin on
Fucking GO TRUMP!!!
SpectreKen on
As a size comparison id say the Americans should be a little ashamed right? Like for more then the other stuff, populations and land mass you’d think they’d be ahead in productions decades ago and never fall behind.
LordMcray on
Stop the steel!
cdn_tony on
Hot Rolled Steel prices are up over 20 percent from last year. No wonder production increased a little bit. Consumers will be paying the price and profits will go to Nippon Steel.
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Nippon Steel, Japan’s largest steel company acquired US Steel. It would be in their best interest to boost steel production after buying it 🇯🇵🇺🇸
Edit: It also seems that Japanese steelmakers are currently declining due to fierce competition from China, who is going thru a real estate slump and flooded the market with cheap steel. There is also decreasing domestic demand, manpower shortages and tariffs.
So now Japan is shifting operations overseas to the US and India
The leftist Western-haters/traitors of reddit won’t like this.
Already the fastest growing advanced economy in the world and now steel production showing signs of growth. The “isolated” “failing” American economy doesn’t seem to be doing too bad at all.
So… we’re winning at something?
That’s a very loud headline. But the reality is that Japan had a big drop, while the US stayed almost at the same level.
The data I found: the US produced 79 million tons of steel in 2015 and 82 million tons in 2025. Japan fell from 105 to 81.
So this headline is so misleading it’s honestly funny, pure manipulation instead of actual numbers. And it’s also funny that Trump repeated it, which just shows he literally has nothing real to brag about.
And there’s a second point that also matters: what kind of steel are we even talking about? It’s very different products, and just the total tonnage doesn’t mean it brings more profit than a smaller volume of higher-quality steel.
For example, stainless steel production: the EU produced 6.1 million tons in 2024, while the US produced 2 million tons in 2024 and 2+million tons in Japan. A certain type of steel can have lower volume but be more expensive. There’s also electrical steel and other specialized types.
+ The reduction in steel production is also linked to newer, more advanced designs that are thinner and lighter.
+ of course, when a country moves from industrialization to a high-tech economy, steel production will also decline.
Overall, steel is a very complex and diverse product, so writing such useless, oversimplified headlines makes no sense
[US Steel production jumps around, but it’s been pretty steady for the last decade.](https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/steel-production)
[Japanese steel production has been slowly trending down over the last decade.](https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/steel-production)
The news here isn’t that US steel is up, it’s that Japanese steel is down.
How we doing on aluminum, while we’re here.
Wow, it turns out Japan is better at producing steel in the US that actual Americans
Fucking GO TRUMP!!!
As a size comparison id say the Americans should be a little ashamed right? Like for more then the other stuff, populations and land mass you’d think they’d be ahead in productions decades ago and never fall behind.
Stop the steel!
Hot Rolled Steel prices are up over 20 percent from last year. No wonder production increased a little bit. Consumers will be paying the price and profits will go to Nippon Steel.
Because it’s owned by Japan 😂
Can someone provide a link without a paywall?