Rare earths: China's new rare earth regulations strive for better industry management
On 15 January, 2021, China’s Ministry of Industry & Information Technology (MIIT) published a draft of “proposed regulations on rare earth” for public consultation. China’s new rare earth regulations clarify the various systems of rare earth management legally and indicate the determination of the Chinese government to further strengthen the management of the… Read more
Economic Outlook: Chinese economy ends 2020 strongly
The Chinese government has just released a range of economic data for the end of 2020. GDP in Q4 beat consensus estimates and was up 6.5% y-on-y, bringing average growth for the year to 2.3%. That represents the slowest increase in the Chinese economy for 40 years; but put more… Read more
Niobium: China’s ferroniobium prices flat in Q1 2021
Citic Metal, CBMM’s exclusive distributor in China for ferroniobium (FeNb), has set its quarterly price for the January-March period at RMB205,000-225,000/t (US$31,783-34,884/t), unchanged from the previous quarter. Roskill View Brazil’s CBMM is the world largest FeNb producer and the de facto price setter. Global FeNb demand dropped in 2020, although… Read more
Steel Alloys: China hits new all-time high steel production in 2020
Preliminary numbers released by China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) confirmed that the country’s crude steel production exceeded the billion tonnes mark in 2020, an all-time high. At approximately 1.05Bnt, the y-o-y increase would be 5.2%. In December alone, crude steel production reached 91.25Mt, a 7.7% y-o-y increase. Roskill View… Read more
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