It seems China has made a major-scale order to stop production of ferroalloys in the wide area including Fengzhen City in Inner Mongolia from October 20 to mid-November.
According to the latest Customs statistic, China exported 53,224 tons of ferroalloys in September 2014, dropping down by 6.8% M-o-M but violently up by 62.8% Y-O-Y. The exported materials included 43,781 tons of ferrosilicon.
According to statistic National Bureau of Statistic of China, Chinese ferroalloy production in September was 3.2565 million tons, up by 6% M-O-M and up by 1.3% Y-O-Y. And the production was totally 27.905 million tons in Jan-Sep of 2014, up by 6.9% Y-O-Y.