Japan ferrosilicon (≤55%) imports down 63.82% year on year in September, 2020.

Japan ferrosilicon (≤55%) imports down 45.83% year on year in Jan-Sep, 2020.

Nickel price trend on November 9th

LME nickel price trend on November 6th

In September 2020, Japan imported 27693.078 tons of ferrosilicon, an increase of 125.55% over the previous month.

From January to September 2020, Japan imported 250201.03 tons of ferrosilicon (>55%).

This trend is expected to persist in the medium term, whereby domestic steel mills will directly benefit, VDSC said.

Molybdenum price increases; Tungsten is running smoothly; Vanadium is still down