The Commerce Dept. confirmed steep import duties yesterday on solar products from China and Taiwan earlier on Wednesday in a decision that may inflame trade tensions between the two countries.

On December 16th，2014, Chinese Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council has announced 2015 Import and Export Tariffs Schedules, which will be effective from Jan 1st，2015.The import tariffs on rare earth products were all at zero and ferroalloys product...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]LME nickel price continued to fall on Thursday, Dec 18. The price began to dip sharply after an opening rise during Asian trading hours. The price almost offset the falling in the European trading hours, and the price kept relatively stable i...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Inner Mongolia Xilinhaote Huadong Refractory Material Plant is a ferrochrome producer who has two ferrochrome furnaces...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese APT was offered at RMB131,000-132,000/mt (USD21,475-21,639/mt, export duty excluded), following its W concentrates cost. Many suppliers received little order, as downstream market was sluggish.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese W concentrates was offered at RMB79,000-80,000/mt (USD12,950-13,114/mt, export duty excluded), but transaction volumes were slim.

Market Prices of Ferrosilicon Showed an Upturn only in Q3 of 2014 in China

Venezuela has restarted production from the Loma de Niquel ferronickel asset it took from mining giant Anglo American (AAL.L) in 2012 after cancelling its licenses, data from an industry body showed this week.