aluminium price drop 1% and the stock drop 10%++ with this volume? jz a fund cut its holding la.. panic for what..? i believe got other funds taking up the selling.
Our subsidiary in Foshan, Press Metal International Limited, is one of the largest exporters of aluminium products in China, with a production capacity of 120,000 tonnes per annum.
The Group has also established an extrusion facility in Hubei, China, with a production capacity of 30,000 tonnes per annum. The Hubei extrusion operation complements our Hubei smelter which has a production capacity of 90,000 tonnes per annum. The smelter has a self-sufficient energy supply as our subsidiary owns and operates a 180MW coal-fired power plant.
: China, the world’s largest aluminum producer, may worsen a global glut of the metal as the government scrapped export taxes for some products.
The removal of fees to ship certain aluminum products may encourage further exports from the country that accounts for about half the world’s production. Global prices may sink as the move encourages producers to shift China’s aluminum glut overseas, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.
“The policy will improve China’s aluminum market by encouraging exports and reducing domestic oversupply, but will increase global aluminum supply,” said Ma Kai, a Beijing-based analyst at China International Capital Corp. “Overseas aluminum premiums will be damped, while rising Chinese exports will also have a negative impact on LME aluminum prices.”
China continues to add aluminum capacity as smelters elsewhere struggle to cut enough supply to buoy prices. The nation’s exports of unwrought aluminum and aluminum products in the first quarter of 2015 rose 43 percent from a year earlier to 1.21 million metric tons, customs data show.
Aluminum for delivery in three months on the London Metal Exchange fell 0.7 percent to $1,794 a ton at 3 p.m. in Shanghai. Prices are down 3.3 percent this year.
Alcoa Inc., the largest U.S. aluminum producer, forecast a global oversupply of the metal for 2015 and the slowest rate of growth in global consumption in three years. China will add more than 80 percent of new global capacity this year, according to the company’s data.
China will remove all export taxes on bars and rods of primary aluminum and aluminum-alloy starting May 1, the Ministry of Finance said on its website Thursday. The government also scrapped export fees on rare earth ores, as well as tungsten and molybdenum alloys.
1. Removal of export tax is applicable mainly on wire rods- semi-finished product
2. Despite removal of export tax, VAT of 17% is still applicable (no rebate) and therefore not competitive for the China players to export larger amount than they already have.
3. Aluminum wire rods from China are of lower quality and less in demand by regional buyers.
4. China's energy cost is still higher compared to PMetal.
5. Coy not expecting China producers to flood the market with this change of ruling.
6. Current Japan premium at USD250/tonne is seen as healthy. It should also help to deter China players from exporting aggressively at current premium.
Aluminium price shot up by USD25 to USD1830 on Friday on the metal exchange contrary to players believe that the aluminium prices will retreat due to the China's move on tax regime. To look out for reversal of PMETAL tomorrow
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drop fast up fast too.. fast and furious!