Top ten countries importing Chinese silicon carbide in December
2012-02-13 09:37:23 [Print]
BEIJING (Asian Metal) 13 Feb 12 - In the fourth quarter of 2011, a large quantity of export quotas had not been used up due to the sluggish demand. Chinese suppliers insisted on offering export license at as high as RMB2,000-3,000/t before November. However, in December, all the licenses have to be used to export, or they will get loss. Before December, there are more than 35,000t of export were available. Therefore, suppliers lowered the price of export license to as low as RMB800/t which hits a record since 2009.
Major consumers who usually purchase large quantities of silicon carbide from China place more orders in view of the low price of export license. Following are the top ten countries?ions who imported Chinese silicon carbide in terms of quantity.
Country?ion qu'tity(kg)
USA 21160556
Japan 5540060
South Korea 3125200
Taiwan of China 1258214
Norway 770120
Iran 640000
Thailand 527400
Singapore 440010
Indonesia 179500
India 306800