Import permit tonnage for finished steel in April was 1,317,000, down 13.0% from the final imports total of 1,514,000 in March.

The 2009 ferrosilicon contract price on ZCE closed at 5816 yuan per ton on May 11.

YDD started cold commissioning three furnaces at its new Karaganda ferro-silicon operation in Kazakhstan at the end of 2018.

The ferrosilicon market has been running smoothly, with little change in price before the holiday.

China's benchmark power coal price dropped slightly during the past week.

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China's logistics prosperity index hit 53.6 percent in April, up 2.1 percentage points from the previous month.

In late April, 2020, key steel mills produced 20.1204 million tons of crude steel, 18.3798 million tons of pig iron, 20.4203 million tons of steel products and 3.2526 million tons of coke.