The Central Government of China announced that the regulations for exports of ferroalloys from China are strengthened from September 1st of 2008 as decided as of the August 21st of 2008.

    The Government has been so far implementing various measures to regulate exports of Chinese ferroalloys but an important point to be enforced in this time is to specify the enterprises which are allowed to export ferroalloys from China.

    The following matters are conditioned1. The enterprises must have actual record on exports of Chinese ferroalloys during 2005 to 20072. The enterprises have acquired ISO 9000 Certificate3. The enterprises have been fulfilled with various regulations as stipulated by the Bureau for Commerce and Industry.

    Also, in order to be appointed as suitable enterprises for exports of Chinese ferroalloys, both of producers and exporters are required to take hereafter various procedures with the authorities concerned and these procedures have to be commenced from September 1st. A period for this preparation is left by the end of 2008 and the regulations for exports of ferroalloys from China, based on the conditions as mentioned above are enforced from the January 1st of 2009.

    Therefore, the authorities concerned in each province and each city of China have targeted on the 15th October of 2008 to select in advance suitable enterprises for exports of ferroalloys located in each district and, after that, recommend suitable enterprises to the Central Government of China. In order to proceed this work, China Chamber of Commerce of Metals & Chemicals Importers & Exporters and China Ferroalloys Producers Association have been decided to cooperate on this matter. This treatment to strengthen the regulations for exports of Chinese ferroalloys is thought to enlarge further the power held by China Chamber of Commerce of Metals & Chemicals Importers & Exporters.

    The objective ferroalloys to be regulated in this time for its exports are

1. Ferrosilicon

2. Ferromanganese

3. Silicomanganese

4. Ferrochrome

5. Ferronickel

6. Ferrotungsten

7. Ferrosilicon tungsten

8. Ferrotitanium and ferrosilicotitanium

9. Ferrovanadium

10. Ferroniobium

11. 0ther ferroalloys

Also, in order to be qualified as suitable enterprises for exports of Chinese ferroalloys, each enterprise has to be required to have had actual exports of more than 3,000 tonnes per annum in 2007 for each of ferrosilicon, ferromanganese and silicomanganese. In view of the countermeasures for environmental pollution, this condition is supposed to aim to sieve small enterprises, which are producing ferroalloys for exports. For a reference, this treatment has excluded to specify suitable enterprises for exports of molybdenum products from China, because exporters and exportable quantities of molybdenum products have been already decided effective from July of 2007.