From January to December 2021, Japan imported 19426.89 tons of rare earth ferroalloy, up 75.14% from 11092.38 tons in the same period last year.

Over the past two years, Iran's steel industry has been developing, and has maintained tenth of the top steel producers in the world.

In November 2021, Germany's top three sources of metal silicon imports were Norway(8,948 tons), France(5,709 tons) and China(2,423 tons).

In November 2021, Turkey imported 7690.25 tons of ferromanganese (C>2%).

South Africa was its largest source of imports.

In November 2021, the export volume of ferrosilicon (containing by weight more than 55% of silicon) in Russia was 30379.47 tons.

Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported that the U.S. imported a total of 2,339,000 net tons (NT) of steel in February 2022.

In the week ending on March 19, 2022, US domestic raw steel production was 1,742,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 80.2 percent.