The Ukrainian Interdepartmental Commission on International Trade is to investigate import the import of some ferroalloy products into Ukraine. Ferromanganese with a carbon content of more than two percent (excluding ferromanganese granules of more than 5 mm and with manganese content of more than 65 percent) and ferrosilicomanganese will be subject to the investigation regardless of origin.
The investigation has been requested by the Association of Ukrainian Ferroalloy Producers (UkrFA) and a number of ferroalloy producers including the Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant (NZF), the Zaporizhia Ferroalloy Plant and the Stakhanov Ferroalloy Plant (SFP).
In a statement released by the complainants Ukraine’s ferroalloy output decreased by 59 per cent in Q3 2009 compared to Q3 2008, however ferroalloy imports increased by 219 percent, while prices went down by 38 percent.
In 2009, Ukraine’s ferroalloy output decreased by 25.2 per cent against 2008 to 1.036 million mt, however ferroalloy imports increased by 5.4 times year on year to 103,350 mt. This included 58,940 mt of Ferrosilicomanganese imports were 58.940mt, up 4.3 times compared to 2008, ferromanganese imports were 35,600 mt - up 11.6 times - and ferrosilicon imports were 8,610 mt of ferrosilicon - up 4.1 times. Ukraine imports ferroalloys mainly from Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia and China.
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