[Ferro-Alloys.com]Spot prices of chrome ores kept steady in China last week, while futures prices tended to be weak. As Chinese Spring Festival gets nearer, some chrome ore traders lowered their futures prices.

Silicon metal Price kept low before Chinese New Year holidays. Export price dropped again.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]According to the latest data of China Customs, China imported 230,702 tonnes of ferrochrome in Dec 2014, up 66.4% compared with that of Nov 2014

[Ferro-Alloys.com]According to the latest data of China Customs, China imported 2,057,987 tonnes of ferrochrome in 2014 in total, up 11.8% compared with that of 2013

Total nickel ores imports in 2014 was 47.81million tons, decreased by 32.9% year on year, of which Philippines Ni ores increased by 22.7% to 36.48million tons while Indonesian Ni ores declined by 74.1% to 10.64million tons.

In 2014, after the export ban of Indonesia was implemented, the international nickel ores price raised much, which had great effect on Chinese FeNi industry. Under this condition, 1% import tax of FeNI was canceled. It was expected that the Initiative would di...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]According to the latest data of China Customs, China imported 721,137 tonnes of chrome ore in Dec 2014, up 39.7%

[Ferro-Alloys.com]According to the latest data of China Customs, China imported 9,385,255 tonnes of chrome ore in 2014 in total, down 22.4%