In June, China exported 4963.06 tons of ferrosilicon (>55%) to Japan, which accounts for 25.2% and 4493.84 to Korea, which accounts for 22.82%.

Steel production in Hebei China in June.

Crude steel production in Hebei China down 1.2 % in H1.

Nickel price trend on July 28th

LME nickel price trend on July 27th

The Argus iron ore fines 62pc Fe ICX cfr Qingdao was last assessed at $108.50/dry metric tonnes (dmt), which was up from $91.15/dmt on 1 January.

US raw steel production for week ends July 25 increase slightly.

U.S. imported a total of 1,391,000 net tons (NT) of steel in June 2020.