Thursday, May 29, 2008

China Reports Lower Electrlytic Manganese Metal Exports

China Customs reports that China’s export volume of electrolytic manganese metal was 20,427 tons in April 2008. While this was an increase over the previous month’s 16,355 tons it was well down on the 27,158 tones exported in April 2007.

The market appears more stable this year and exports for the first four months of the year saw a 15% decrease from 88,840 tons from January to April 2007, to 75,417 tons for the same period in 2008

The chief export destination was Japan (5,342 tons) followed by South Korea (4,640 tons), Russia (3,263 tons) and the Netherlands (2.654 tons). Export to U.S.A. increased from 760 tons in March 2008 to 1,080 tons in April.

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