{"id":545797,"date":"2026-01-27T02:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/545797\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:15:14","slug":"us-steel-production-exceeds-japans-for-first-time-in-26-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/545797\/","title":{"rendered":"US steel production exceeds Japan&#8217;s for first time in 26 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/materials\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Materials<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Trump tariffs, AI data center construction boom lifted industry in 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260126N US Steel\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Nippon Steel plans to invest\u00a0billions of dollars in U.S. Steel facilities such as this one.\u00a0(U.S. Steel)<\/p>\n<p>AZUSA KAWAKAMI<\/p>\n<p>January 27, 2026 06:50 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">NEW YORK &#8212; U.S. crude steel production surpassed Japan&#8217;s in 2025 for the first time in 26 years, making it the world&#8217;s third-largest producer after China and India, a result of production increases stemming from President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariff policies and a boom in artificial intelligence data center construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Materials Trump tariffs, AI data center construction boom lifted industry in 2025 Nippon Steel plans to invest\u00a0billions of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":545798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[41683,64,79,240122,16220,183799,18904,24807,6620,67,132,68,7827],"class_list":{"0":"post-545797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-41683","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-exceeds","12":"tag-first","13":"tag-japans","14":"tag-production","15":"tag-steel","16":"tag-time","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-years"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115964655953718440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}