Brazil mainly produces ferrosilicon, calcium silicon and Si metal which are all high power-consuming industrial products and much rely on power supply.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese APT was offered at RMB-/mt by acceptance amid weak demand.

According to latest data of the General Administration of Customs, China exported 24，856 mt of EMM (811100) in May 2014,

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeW was offered at RMB-/mt by acceptance.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Since Yunnan province enjoy high water season power price, reducing production cost allowed operation rates for manganese alloy factories to resume about 50%.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]In the first half of 2014, China total imported 7.885 million tons of manganese ore, showing an increase of 6.9% compared to the same period of last year according to data conducted by Chinese custom statistics.

The calcium silicon export market in China was still depressed with big gap between the lowest and highest prices.

According to statistic National Bureau of Statistic of China, Chinese ferroalloy production was totally ... million tons in H1 of 2014, up by ... Y-O-Y. The production in June was ...million tons, up by ... Y-O-Y.