尽管目前美国经济增长速度下滑，但是，在未来中期里，世界钢材需求量仍会不断上升。上世纪９０年代世界钢材消费量年平均增长率接近１％。如果不考虑此期间前苏联钢材消费量从１５亿吨下降至３４００万吨，则９０年代钢材消费量年平均增长率达到３％。从现在至２００５年世 Despite the current slowdown in U.S. economic growth, the world demand for steel will continue to rise in the medium term. The average annual growth rate of world steel consumption in the 1990s was nearly 1%. If we do not consider that the consumption of steel in the former Soviet Union dropped from 35 million tons to 34 million tons during this period, the average annual growth rate of steel consumption in the 1990s will reach 3%. From now until 2005 world