Regional trade barriers and protective tariffs have permanently reshaped the global steel supply map in 2025. Amid unprecedented volatility, the global steel market no longer moves as a unified front; the era of localized strategies has arrived.
While some countries are striving to save domestic production by imposing protective tariffs, others are stimulating domestic demand for steel through budget programs and fiscal incentives. At the same time, nearly all are becoming hostages to macroeconomic crises.
GMK Center has prepared a collection of materials titled “Global Steel Consumption 2025: Key Findings and Forecasts,” which can be viewed and downloaded via the link.
In this collection, we have compiled a series of articles that reflect the real situation in key global markets. We hope it will help traders, industrial market analysts, and steel industry executives gain a complete picture of the fragmentation of the global steel market and the crisis facing traditional industrial centers.
List of articles in this collection:
The full version of the almanac “Global Steel Consumption 2025: Key Findings and Forecasts” can be downloaded via the link.
The European Commission has approved an Austrian programme worth €100 million to support production capacity…
On 8 June, the Council of the European Union adopted a regulation establishing a new…
Part of Tata Steel’s operations in the UK are currently suspended following a fire at…
A year has passed since U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a 50% tariff on steel…
Cargill, one of the world’s largest commodity traders, is in talks to sell its steel…
According to figures for January–March 2026, EU steelmakers reduced their imports of direct reduced iron…