According to the production research of www.ferroalloys.com, in Guizhou province, one major producing area of China, the ferrophosphorus enterprises closed down for the environmental problems and

China will remove the interium export duty of other ferroalloys including ferrophosphorus (FeP) from May 1st, 2015. Enterprises indicated there may be some advantages and disadvantages coexisting for the removal.

Since 2015, the FeB price continued to decline. On Apr.20th, FeB18% was quoted at RMB19500-20000/mt, which decreased by RMB1500-2000/mt in recent four months.

In mid-Mar. of 2015, several major FeB producers in China maintained the normal production while both the spot and export price declined. According one large manufacture of Feb

]In mid-Feb. of 2015, the FeB price in China had no much change compared with last month. The FeB18% was quoted at RMB21000-21500/mt. according several large producers

Republic of Korea was one of the major importing countries of boric acid. In recent firve years, the annual imports of Korea stayed at 55-60thousand tons.

According to the statistics, Japan was one of the major importing countries in the world. In recent years, the annual imports of Japan was about 60-110thousand tons. the main suppliers were America

According to the statistics of US International Trade Commission, American other unlisted ferroalloy export volume was 1686 mt in Oct 2014, up by 115% M-O-M and up by 178.6% Y-O-Y. The total export volume in Jan-Oct 2014 was 9625mt, up by 84.4% Y-O-Y.