In October 2020, Japan imported 571.08 tons of ferrosilicon (silicon content ≤ 55%).

In Jan-Oct, 2020, Japan imported 8449.989 tons of ferrosilicon (silicon content ≤ 55%), up 31.6% YoY.

LME nickel price trend on December 10th

Nickel price trend on December 10th

LME nickel price trend on December 9th

The first batch of steel rails made in China for use on Indonesia's Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway was shipped on Saturday from the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

The country's steel imports surged 73.9 percent year-on-year to over 17 million tons in the Jan-Oct period. The growth was up 1.7 percentage points from the first three quarters, MIIT data showed.

China's steel imports registered rapid growth in the first 10 months of the year, while the decline in exports narrowed, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).