Japan ferrosilicon (≤55%) imports down 45.83% year on year in Jan-Sep, 2020.

In September 2020, Japan imported 27693.078 tons of ferrosilicon, an increase of 125.55% over the previous month.

From January to September 2020, Japan imported 250201.03 tons of ferrosilicon (>55%).

Ukraine’s manganese ore imports declined by 7.5% in September,imports fell by 55.7% in the first nine months of 2020

U.S. imported a total of 1,255,000 net tons (NT) of steel in September 2020.

Our society faces pressure on long term sustainability from many sources.

Ferro-alloys.com:BHP OPERATIONAL REVIEW FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2020

In the week ending on October 17, 2020, US domestic raw steel production was 1,535,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 69.4 percent.