China imported 260 million metric tons of iron ore, 130 million tons of crude oil and 95.78 million tons of coal in the first quarter of 2022.

The 2009 ferrosilicon contract price on ZCE closed at 5590 yuan per ton on April 17.

For ferrosilicon market, neither the downstream demand nor the market activity was satisfactory.

Ferronickel market weekly comment(April 13th-April 17th) The price of high grade ferronickel price went up in this week

Nickel ore market weekly comment(April 13th-April 17th): The prices of Laterite-Nickel ore was steble this week

Electrolytic nickel market weekly comment(April 13th-April 17th) LME nickel price was not stable in general, so was the price of electrolytic nickel

LME nickel price trend on April 16th

Through 2019, the output of ferrosilicon of the group was 1.5876 million tons, and the output of Silicomanganese was 332.2 thousand tons.