Pakistan’s steel is made mainly from scrap and imported billet, in mills around Lahore and Karachi.
Rebar and other long products for construction are the main output. Imports arrive through Karachi and Port Qasim.
3.6 Mt in 2025 (4.1 Mt in 2024)
Source: worldsteel, World Steel in Figures 2026. More figures on Steel statistics.
Who sets standards in Pakistan, and the mandatory standards for reinforcing steel.
The Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) sets national standards and runs certification marks for the products on its mandatory list, 166 in all.
Sources: PSQCA · PSQCA — mandatory items
Reinforcing bars are on PSQCA’s mandatory list, among them PS 1879 for deformed and plain billet-steel bars; billets for rebar (PS 2337) were added in 2015.
Source: PSQCA — list of mandatory items
The standards bodies on our steel grades & standards page: PSQCA.
Listed companies that name the product on their profile.
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