[Ferro-Alloys.com] As further downtrend of steelmakers bidding for May, it seems that silicon manganese spot market in China would be still hard to get out of dropping for the whole month.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Since May, 1st, 2015, Chinese government will change resource tax of rare earth, W and Mo from ad specific to valorem tax.

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At present, the price of EMM in domestic main producing areas was about CNY10,800-11,000 per mt. Some large enterprises, such as Kingray New Materials Science & Technology Co., Ltd. maintained the price of CNY11,000 per mt, while some small enterprises or merc...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]According to China Customs data, China's import volume of chrome ore totaled 0.868 million tonnes in March 2015, increasing by 36% from previous month, which was an obvious rise compared with that in October 2014 to February 2015 when the mon...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeV was offered at RMB64,000-65,000/mt by acceptance. In late month, mills intensively purchased raw materials, but volume was limited. The tender price improved a bit to RMB64,000/mt by acceptance.

Japan Imports of FeSi Suffered Slight Decreases in February 2015

[Ferro-Alloys.com]It is reported that China exported 895.628 tons high carbon ferromanganese, decreasing by 39% from the same period of last year. Meanwhile,