In the first five months, coal imports rose by 16.8 percent to hit 149 million tonnes.

China's imports of both semi-finished and finished steel products surged in April.

The output of crude steel, pig iron and steel in May were 92.27 million tons, 77.32 million tons and 114.53 million tons respectively.

From January to May, 2020, the output of flat steel in the country increased by 13% year-on-year to 945178 tons.

In early June 2020, the key steel enterprises produced 21.0916 million tons of crude steel.

In Jan-Apr, 2020, Japan imported 133461.152 tons of ferrosilicon (>55%), a decrease of 13.01% year on year.

Japan ferrosilicon (≤55%) exports in Jan-Apr down 43.63%.

China ferrosilicon (≤55%) exports in April.