China has sent a strong signal that it will ramp up efforts to curb carbon emissions with a vow to include climate impact in the nation's environmental impact assessment.

In 2020, China's steel exports totaled 53.671 million tons, down 16.5% YoY.

China's iron ore imports increased by 9.5% in 2020 in comparison with 2019, China Customs data shows.

China produced 770.7 thousand tons of premiary magnesium in 2020.

In Jan-Nov, 2020, China exported a total of 353.1 thousand tons of magnesium products.

In the week ending on January 9, 2021, US domestic raw steel production was 1,709,000 net tons.

In November 2020, Japan imported 21435.911 tons of ferrosilicon (containing by weight more than 55% of silicon).

Japan ferrosilicon (>55%) imports down 25.6% YoY in Jan-Nov.