Silicon metal Price kept low before Chinese New Year holidays. Export price dropped again.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]According to the latest data of China Customs, China imported 230,702 tonnes of ferrochrome in Dec 2014, up 66.4% compared with that of Nov 2014

[Ferro-Alloys.com]According to the latest data of China Customs, China imported 2,057,987 tonnes of ferrochrome in 2014 in total, up 11.8% compared with that of 2013

Total nickel ores imports in 2014 was 47.81million tons, decreased by 32.9% year on year, of which Philippines Ni ores increased by 22.7% to 36.48million tons while Indonesian Ni ores declined by 74.1% to 10.64million tons.

In 2014, after the export ban of Indonesia was implemented, the international nickel ores price raised much, which had great effect on Chinese FeNi industry. Under this condition, 1% import tax of FeNI was canceled. It was expected that the Initiative would di...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]According to the latest data of China Customs, China imported 721,137 tonnes of chrome ore in Dec 2014, up 39.7%

[Ferro-Alloys.com]According to the latest data of China Customs, China imported 9,385,255 tonnes of chrome ore in 2014 in total, down 22.4%

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeW was offered at RMB150,000/mt (USD24,590/mt, export duty excluded) by acceptance, but transaction volumes were slim amid soft demand.