Ministry of Steel Monthly Summary Data

It is the Government of India's own monthly account of its steel sector, delivered here as typed rows rather than a folder of PDFs. The Ministry of Steel Monthly Summary is how the Ministry of Steel publishes the Steel Sector Monthly Economic Report: each issue runs roughly nine to thirteen pages and stacks three annexures over the body tables. Annexure I carries the supply-balance arithmetic - production, imports, exports, availability, stock variation and finished consumption - laid out across successive fiscal years ending March. Annexure II puts India's monthly crude steel output next to China, the United States, Japan, Russia and South Korea, with world totals and month-over-month plus year-over-year changes. Annexure III reports what the state-owned producers actually made: hot metal, crude steel, saleable steel, pellets, iron ore and manganese ore volumes for SAIL, NMDC, KIOCL, MOIL, RINL and NSL.

The body tables carry the parts analysts reach for first. A monthly trade table gives exports and imports with the change over prior month and prior year, each fresh month marked provisional. Two ranked lists name the top five imported and exported product categories - HR coil/strip, CR coil/sheets, GP/GC sheets/coil, plates, bars and rods, others. Price lines quote iron ore lump from NMDC Chhattisgarh, hard coking coal f.o.b. Australia, and month-end Mumbai retail prices for TMT 10 mm, HRC 2.50 mm and CRC 0.63 mm inclusive of GST.

Within Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets across 159 viable industries, this record scores 8/10 - one of more than twenty steel records, and among the few that speak for a national government rather than an association or a market-intelligence shop.

Exactly as they land after normalization - a fiscal-year cumulative block, one monthly trade print, and the world comparison row:

# fiscal-year cumulative block (Annexure I) - provisional quarter marked P
row=Finished Steel Consumption   fy2023_24_apr_jun=30.83   fy2024_25_apr_jun=35.54
fy2025_26_apr_jun=38.40          fy2026_27_apr_jun_P=41.57   unit=million tonnes

# monthly trade print with net balance (June 2026)
exports_mt=0.62    imports_mt=0.70    net_trade=-0.08    unit=million tonnes

# world comparison row (Annexure II)
country=World   may_25=158.43   may_26_P=157.88   change_yoy_pct=-0.3   year_2025_P=1848.9
country=India   may_26=14.09    unit=million tonnes

# shape of the slice
grain=monthly national + quarterly fiscal cumulative + per-CPSE   provisional_flag=P

Read what those rows already say. Finished steel consumption grew from 30.83 million tonnes in the opening quarter of FY2023-24 to 38.40 million tonnes three fiscal years later - about 7.6 percent compounded annually, demand compounding while population-scale arguments stay abstract. June 2026 ran a small net import position, 80,000 tonnes deep, which is why the top-imported-categories list matters more than the gross tonnage. And the world row shows global May output essentially flat year over year at minus 0.3 percent while India prints growth - the divergence is visible in two adjacent rows rather than two separate subscriptions. Request a sample naming your products and fiscal years and the same shapes come back filled.

Thirteen verified fields, written against the published tables rather than inferred. Every observation keys on the reporting month, which pairs with India's crude steel production in million tonnes and its year-over-year change; finished steel production and finished steel consumption arrive alongside the derived availability line and the variation in stock that reconciles them. The trade side contributes monthly finished steel exports and imports, the ranked top five imported and exported product categories, and the country dimension of the world comparison table with per-country crude steel volumes. CPSE-level production items - hot metal, crude steel, saleable steel, pellets, manganese ore - cover the six state-owned enterprises, and three price fields close the set: NMDC iron ore lump, international coking coal, and Mumbai retail quotes for TMT, HRC and CRC.

The dictionary below is the verified core. Anything adjacent confirmed during sample preparation folds under additional fields on request rather than being promised blind.

Geography: India as the reporting unit throughout - national production, consumption and trade totals, Mumbai retail price points, per-enterprise volumes for companies operating across multiple states. The world comparison tables are the one place the frame widens, setting India against China, the United States, Japan, Russia, South Korea and a world aggregate sourced from the World Steel Association.

Temporal: monthly issues with the current listing reaching back to roughly 2019 and an archived back-catalogue behind it - June 2026 was the latest issue at research time. Inside each issue, Annexure I restates several fiscal years of April-March cumulatives side by side, so one row already contains the multi-year comparison other publishers spread across a decade of releases.

Granularity: three grains reconcile against each other. Monthly national totals form the spine; fiscal-year quarterly cumulatives roll the months up; per-CPSE monthly volumes decompose part of the national figure by producer. Recent months carry the provisional flag until the Joint Plant Committee's compiled figures settle, which is exactly what makes the series safe to build pipelines on once the flag is preserved.

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Pick the channel your stack already speaks. The rows arrive identical either way - period, tonnage, percentage delta - with the PDF-only source material already extracted and typed so nothing in your pipeline parses nine-to-thirteen-page reports by hand to reach one consumption figure.

Every delivery ships with the field dictionary above plus the sample rows for validation, and the provisional flag rides on every affected row, so a pipeline built on these series never mistakes a first-print quarter for a settled one.

• Market researchers and consultants size the Indian steel market off a single issuer-consistent ledger - finished consumption of 41.57 million tonnes in the April-June 2026 quarter, up from 30.83 million tonnes three years earlier, anchors any addressable-market model for mills, service centers and downstream fabricators; worked flows continue on our market sizing page.
• Investors and quant researchers read India's monthly crude steel print directly beside China's, Japan's, America's and the world total - one table, one issuer, no stitching - as the structural layer beneath positioning in Indian steelmakers and steel-consuming sectors; see investors & quants use cases for steel.
• Trade-policy and competitive-intel analysts track the monthly import and export prints with their provisional flags, then drill into the top five imported categories - HR coil leading that list says something different than plates leading it; see competitor tracking.
• Supply-chain and procurement teams watch availability and stock variation turn before they surface in delivered prices, with month-end Mumbai retail quotes for TMT, HRC and CRC as the local reference; see supply-chain mapping.
• Journalists, academics and students cite a national ministry's own figures rather than a paraphrase of them - every fresh month arrives flagged provisional, so published caveats stay attached to the numbers.

Market researchers and consultants get the structural facts - production, consumption, availability and the stock bridge - that turn a tonnage series into an Indian market model; the fuller workflow lives on market researchers in steel. Investors and quants get a monthly, issuer-consistent cross-country panel with world totals beside it, early-warning material for emerging-market cyclical work; see investors and quants in steel. Data scientists and ML engineers get a compact numeric macro feature whose columns arrive typed with units documented and provisional flags preserved; see data scientists in steel. Journalists, academics and students get citable national statistics with explicit year-over-year changes rather than rounded recaps of them.

Provenance note — published by the Government of India's Ministry of Steel as its Steel Sector Monthly Economic Report. Production and trade figures are compiled by the Joint Plant Committee (JPC); the world comparison table draws on World Steel Association data; the CPSE annexure reports the state-owned producers directly. One issuer stands behind all three annexures.

Methodology note — the supply-balance arithmetic is stated inside the report itself: availability equals production plus imports minus exports, and consumption equals availability adjusted for stock variation. Recent months are flagged provisional (P) until settled figures replace them. Treat the newest print as direction and let the flag travel with every downstream row instead of silently overwriting history.

Completeness note — Datadory scores this record 8/10 and the thirteen-field dictionary above verifies against the observed issues. Archive depth before 2019 and any product-level detail beyond the top-five category lists are confirmed at sampling rather than asserted here.

Where to go next — pair the national report with frames around it: Steel Import Management System (SIMS) data resolves the ministry's monthly trade summary down to transaction-level registrations; monthly crude steel production for 71 countries widens the world comparison table to roughly 98 percent of global output; EUROFER European steel data gives the EU producers' counterpart; best steel datasets ranks the whole vertical; and the steel data hub pools the industry view.