According to the statistics of Japan, Japan’s ferrosilicon(Si>55%) import volume was 31,763 mt in Jun 2015, down by 18.7% M-O-M and down by 40% Y-O-Y. The total import volume in H1 of 2015 was 225,950 mt, decreasing down by 4.6% Y-O-Y. The materials were mainly imported from China and Russia.
In H1 of 2015, the import of ferrosilicon (Si>55%) from China was 136,062 mt, slightly up by 1% Y-O-Y while that from Russia was 44505 mt, decreasing by 15.1% Y-O-Y.