[ferro-alloys.com]Yesterday, U.S Trade representative announced that U.S would start to impose tariff on Chinese imported metal and other goods on September 24^th. It shocked the future market. The nickel price dropped down largely again in London Metal Exchange. By the end of trading, LME nickel was quoted at 12275 USD/T. It was 140 USD/T lower than the price on last trading day. In domestic market, the supply of Russian nickel was sufficient, and the LME nickel price dropped down. So, Shanghai Future Nickel price kept on declining. Compared to Wuxi 1810 contract, the premium of Russian nickel was 400 RMB/T, and the premium of Jinchuan nickel was 6400 RMB/T. Today, Jinchuan quoted its electrolytic nickel at 108000 RMB/T.It was 400 RMB/T lower than the price yesterday.

Typhoon Mangkhut ended just now. Both the supply and demand were in low level. Thus, both high grade ferronickel market and low grade ferronickel market kept steady today. Today, high grade ferronickel was quoted at 1040-1060 RMB/Nickel, and the price of low grade ferronickel remained at 3700-3850 RMB/T.

• [Editor:王可]