As last week April mainstream purchase price of FeSi72# was determined at RMB.../mt(USD.../mt,export duty not included),delivered tax-inclusive price by acceptance, down by RMB.../mt(USD32-48/mt) from March purchase price

[Ferro-alloys.com] Generally FeSi market kept stable in China at present, but some ferrosilicon producers planned to raise their quotations. As Ferro-alloys.com editors learned, recently one large Inner Mongolian producer had problem with electricity supply...

[Ferro-alloys.com] At present export market of Chinese ferrosilicon remained depressed. Although Chinese ferrosilicon dealers had some foreign inquiries, their offers were generally rejected by foreign buyers. This was mainly that smuggled Chinese ferrosilicon...

Chinese ferrosilicon market kept silent in mid-April with domestic ex-work price stable despite of some producers decreasing the offers slightly for inactive transactions.

According to latest statistics of South Korea Customs Service, South Korea imported 22,499 mt of ferrosilicon, up by 53.2% from February of 2014(14,686 mt) and up 12.9% from March of 2013(19,933 mt).

[Ferro-alloys.com] Before the year 2012, China was always the largest ferrosilicon producer as well as the largest ferrosilicon exporter in the world. Russia began to surpass...

[Ferro-alloys.com] According to UN trade statistics, world imports of FeSi (Si>55%) have ranged from 2.3 million tonnes to 2.5 million tonnes in the past several years. Main importers of FeSi were Japan, South Korea, Germany, the United States, the Netherlands...

[Ferro-alloys.com] Chinese ferrosilicon market hovered in the first ten days of April. Domestic price slightly dropped down compared with that in end-March.