INDUSTRY
Steel companies ask government to unveil more measures to curb rising imports
- IBJ Bureau
- Nov 03, 2025
Steel-makers have urged the government for more measures to check rising imports from select group of countries, including China, which has produced 746.3 mt of crude steel in the January-September period, over six-fold of the domestic output.
According to the World Steel Association, India has produced 122.4 mt of crude steel in January-September. In September alone, China has produced 73.5 mt of crude steel, over five-fold higher from 13.6 mt of domestic production.
According to market data, stainless steel is also unable to reach 100 per cent capacity utilisation of the total installed capacity of 7.5 mt. It remains at only around 60 per cent due to impact of imports.
The government has taken several measures to curb the imports to protect the competitiveness of domestic steel industry.
Over the past few years, the Ministry of Steel has come up with more than 100 quality control orders (QCOs), which restrain non-BIS- compliant steel products to enter the Indian market.
The QCO of June this year had even put restrictions on import of inputs of certain steel products.
“The validity of QCOs can be extended to avoid sub-standard and cheap materials from entering the country,” an industry player has said.
The government can come up with more similar measures to protect the domestic industry – both steel and stainless steel – which has made crores of investment to increase capacity to meet future demand in line with the Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative of the government, the industry player has added.
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