According to the new data from Korea Customs Service, Korea’s silicon metal import volume reached 12,157.243mt in Dec. 2013, rising by 50.7% Y-o-Y. While compared with the previous month (14,998.249mt),
Bernama reported that Iran's state run and privateiron ore production companies exported 12 million tonnes of iron ore in the first 9 months of the current Iranian calendar year.
Raw steel production in the country's Great Lakes region fell to 666,000 tons in the week that ended Saturday, according to an American Iron and Steel Institute estimate.