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Last five days 4-16 4-15 4-14 4-11 4-10

04-16 09:01

In early April 2025, key statistical steel companies produced a total of 21.97 million tons of crude steel, with an average daily production of 2.197 million tons, a monthly increase of 3.4%; pig iron was 19.52 million tons, with an average daily production of 1.952 million tons, a monthly increase of 4.0%; Steel was 20.45 million tons, an average daily production of 2.045 million tons, and the daily production was down 5.3% month-on-month. Based on this estimate, the country's daily production of crude steel was 2.79 million tons, up 3.3% month-on-month, the daily production of pig iron was 2.36 million tons, up 4.0% month-on-month, and the daily production of steel was 4.03 million tons, down 0.6% month-on-month.

04-16 08:59

In early April 2025, the steel inventories of key steel enterprises (hereinafter referred to as "key enterprises") were 16.04 million tons, an increase of 810,000 tons from the previous ten days, an increase of 5.3%; an increase of 3.68 million tons from the beginning of the year, an increase of 29.7%; a decrease of 200,000 tons from the same ten days of the previous month, a decrease of 1.2%; a decrease of 2.21 million tons from the same ten days last year, a decrease of 12.1%, and a decrease of 2.28 million tons from the same ten days of the previous year, a decrease of 12.4%.

04-16 08:55

【Cotton Lint】

In March 2025, the results of the third 2025 cotton planting intention survey by China Cotton Association showed that the national cotton planting intention area in 2025 was 44.184 million mu, a year-on-year increase of 0.4%, and the growth rate was 0.4 percentage points smaller than the previous period.

04-16 08:55

Shipping surveys said that Malaysia's palm oil exports increased by 13.6% to 17% month-on-month from April 1 to 15. For reference, exports increased by 29.3% month-on-month to 52.8%.

04-16 08:53

【Cotton Lint】

In 2025/26, the cotton planting area in Cote d'Ivoire is expected to be 375,000 hectares, a year-on-year increase of 4%. The output is expected to be 745,000 bales, a year-on-year increase of 2%. The export volume is expected to be 735,000 bales, a year-on-year increase of 1.4%.

04-16 08:53

【Cotton Lint】

According to the latest report from the U.S. Agricultural Counselor, the total cotton-growing area in Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal in 2025/26 will be 1.07 million hectares, a year-on-year increase of 9%. The output is expected to be 1.94 million bales, a year-on-year increase of 14%. The reason is that good rainfall is expected and pests are reduced.

04-16 08:51

【Color coated sheet】

On April 15, Mysteel calculated that the average cost of 76 independent electric arc furnace construction steel mills was 3339 yuan/ton, an increase of 5 yuan/ton compared with yesterday, the average profit was-114 yuan/ton, and the valley power profit was-9 yuan/ton, a month-on-month decrease of 10 yuan/ton yesterday.

04-16 08:48

【Color coated sheet】

On April 15, iron ore transactions in main ports across the country were 908,000 tons, a month-on-month decrease of 6%; construction steel transactions from 237 mainstream traders were 110,700 tons, a month-on-month decrease of 6.3%.

04-16 08:45

【macroscopic】

The UK's unemployment rate in March was 4.66%, with the previous value of 4.7%. The number of jobless benefits applications increased by 18,700, and the previous value was revised from an increase of 44,200 to an increase of 16,500. The three-month ILO unemployment rate in February was 4.4%, the forecast was 4.4%, and the previous value was 4.4%.

04-16 08:44

【macroscopic】

The U.S. New York Fed manufacturing index in April was-8.1, expected to-14.5, and the previous value was-20.

04-16 08:41

On April 15, international crude oil futures closed slightly lower. The settlement price of the main contract for U.S. WTI crude oil futures was reported at US$61.33/barrel, a decrease of US$0.20 or 0.3%. The settlement price of the main contract for Brent crude oil futures was reported at US$64.67/barrel, a decrease of US$0.21 or 0.3%.

04-16 08:39

Vale's iron ore output in the first quarter of 2025 was 6.77 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 3.2 million tons, a decrease of 4%

04-16 08:29

【Crude oil】

The IEA monthly report shows that the forecast for global oil demand growth in 2025 will be lowered to 730,000 barrels per day, compared with the previous estimate of 1.03 million barrels per day; oversupply is expected in 2026.

04-16 08:27

China Iron and Steel Association: In early April 2025, key statistics steel companies produced a total of 21.97 million tons of crude steel, with an average daily production of 2.197 million tons, a daily production increase of 3.4% month-on-month; pig iron was 19.52 million tons, with an average daily production of 1.952 million tons, a daily production increase of 4.0% month-on-month; 20.45 million tons of steel, with an average daily production of 2.045 million tons, and the daily production fell by 5.3% month-on-month. In early April, key statistics showed that the steel inventories of steel enterprises were 16.04 million tons, an increase of 810,000 tons, an increase of 5.3% from the previous ten days; an increase of 3.68 million tons, an increase of 29.7% from the beginning of the year; a decrease of 200,000 tons from the same ten days of the previous month, a decrease of 1.2%; a decrease of 2.21 million tons from the same ten days last year, a decrease of 12.1%, and a decrease of 2.28 million tons from the same ten days of the previous year, a decrease of 12.4%.

04-16 08:23

On April 15, the closing price of the paraxylene market in the United States fell by US$7/ton, and the closing price was US$782 -792/ton FOB U.S. Harbor.

04-16 08:22

Citi said in a report that it would raise its 0-3-month aluminum price forecast to US$2300 per ton from the previous US$2200 per ton; and raise its 0-3-month copper price forecast to US$8800 per ton from the previous US$8000 per ton.

04-16 08:20

【Agricultural & sideline products】

American Oilseed Processors Association (NOPA): U.S. soybean oil stocks in March 2025 were 1.498 billion pounds, and market expectations were 1.617 billion pounds, and in February 2025 it was 1.503 billion pounds; U.S. soybean crush volume in March 2025 was 194.551 million bushels, market expectations were 197.602 million bushels, and in February 2025 it was 177.87 million bushels.

04-16 08:20

【Crude oil】

Iraq has cut oil prices in its federal budget and expects oil prices to be below last year's average of US$80 a barrel in 2025.

04-15 17:16

【Galvanized sheet】

On April 15, 2025, statistics showed that 154 national galvanizing enterprises shipped a total of 14214 tons, a decrease of 1256 tons from the previous trading day, a decrease of 8.12%. The region with the largest decrease was Central China, with a decrease of 429 tons or 10.30% from the previous trading day.

04-15 16:57

Qujing Haisheng Run New Materials Co., Ltd., the first-line line of Qujing Haisheng Run Malong (designed production capacity of 550 tons/day), changed white glass to produce Ford blue on April 13.

04-15 16:54

Shahe Great Wall Line 4 (designed production capacity of 700 tons/day), the production line was ignited on April 12.

04-15 15:55

【Agricultural & sideline products】

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Weekly Export Inspection showed that U.S. corn export inspections last week increased by 13% compared with a week ago and a year-on-year increase of 34%. For the week ending April 10, 2025, the U.S. corn export inspection volume was 1829000 tons, compared with 1613460 tons last week and 1364692 tons in the same period last year. The United States did not ship corn to China that week, and it did not ship corn to China last week.

04-15 15:26

As of April 14, 2025, the total cotton inventory of Zhangjiagang Free Trade Zone was 51,100 tons, an increase of 1.62% from the previous week; of which 4.68 tons of bonded cotton, a decrease of 0.90% from the previous week; and 4,300 tons of non-bonded cotton, an increase of 40.72% from the previous week.

04-15 15:20

【Diethylene glycol】

From April 11 to 13, the total shipment volume of Zhangjiagang's two reservoir areas was 4173 tons, with an average daily shipment of 1391 tons over the weekend. As of now, the inventory of the two warehouses is 42,600 tons.

04-15 14:01

At 20:00 on April 12, the supporting boiler of Jilin Petrochemical's 1.2 million tons/year ethylene plant was successfully ignited and baked, marking that the new ethylene plant entered the sprint stage before it was put into production.

04-15 13:54

Recently, the ethylene unit of ExxonMobil Huizhou Ethylene Phase I project achieved a successful commissioning and produced qualified ethylene. Other production units will gradually enter the trial production stage.

04-15 13:24

【Ethylene glycol】

On April 14, 2025, the total ethylene glycol inventory in the main ethylene glycol port in East China was 653,500 tons, a decrease of 44,300 tons from the total inventory of 697,800 tons on April 3.

04-15 11:26

In early April, social inventories of five major steel varieties in 21 cities were 9.83 million tons, a month-on-month decrease of 530,000 tons, a decrease of 5.1%. Inventories continued to decline; an increase of 3.24 million tons compared with the beginning of the year, an increase of 49.2%; a decrease of 3.25 million tons compared with the same period last year, a decrease of 24.8%. In early April, on a month-on-month basis, except for cold-rolled coils, the social inventories of the five major varieties of steel declined to varying degrees. Among them, rebar was the largest variety in reduction, and wire rod was the largest variety in decline; year-on-year, social inventories of the five major varieties of steel have declined to varying degrees.

04-15 11:25

Data from the General Administration of Customs show that in March 2025, China exported 10.456 million tons of steel; from January to March, a total of 27.429 million tons of steel were exported, a year-on-year increase of 6.3%. In March, China imported 501,000 tons of steel; from January to March, the cumulative import of steel was 1.55 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 11.3%. In March, China imported 93.974 million tons of iron ore and concentrates; from January to March, it imported a total of 285.312 million tons of iron ore and concentrates, a year-on-year decrease of 7.8%.

04-15 11:17

Fujian Baihong's 2.5 million-ton PTA unit was overhauled on April 5 and is scheduled to restart around April 20.

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