[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese vanadium pent oxide was offered at RMB57,000-58,000/mt. Driven by domestic V alloy and overseas FeV market bounce, vanadium pent oxide suppliers improved quotation, even some held materials tight. Vanadium pent oxide price rose slight...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeV was offered at RMB64,000-65,000/mt by acceptance. In late month, the tenders of mills increased, resulting in FeV suppliers to firm quotation. Some mills improved tender price for FeV50 to RMB64,500/mt by acceptance.

China’s FeCr export volume was 710 mt in April, up by 107% M-O-M and up by 256% Y-O-Y. There is no improvement on FeCr market this year, the export volume continued low as last year.

Recently, manganese ore port spot quotations are tending upward while semi carbonate manganese ore price held steady in South Africa due to surplus supply.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] China’s chrome ore import volume was 850,786 mt in April, slightly down by 2% M-O-M (1,015,000mt) and down by 16% Y-O-Y. The total import volume from Jan. to Apr. 2015 was 3,130,763 mt, down by 13% Y-O-Y.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]:China’s FeCr import volume was 203,304 mt in April, down by 13.6% M-O-M（235,623 mt）while up by 6% Y-O-Y（191,513 mt）. Since 2015, monthly import of FeCr was not only higher than that of last year but in the high level in recent years. ...

In April 2015, Customs data showed that China imported 296,057 tons ferro alloys (Tariff Number: 72021100-72029999, including ferro alloys and Si products), increasing by 2% month on month (290,521 tons) and 25.9% year on year (235,198 tons).

Customs data showed that China exported 95,195 tons ferro alloys (Tariff Number: 72021100-72029999, including ferro alloys and Si products) in April 2015, increasing by 15.2% month on month (82,596 tons) and decreasing by 16% year on year (113,394 tons).