Silicon suppliers should remain in all parts of the world:

Trends in other metal industries

• A global overall increase in metal supply and demand recent years
• Traditional suppliers shutting down capacity or at best remaining at stable levels, due to low-cost competition
• China covering most of the increase in demand by rising their production, becoming a dominant market supplier
• Markets increasingly dependant on one actor - China - and thus vulnerable to increasing costs in China the last years plus the current energy problems
• Overall, prices have increased dramatically over the past 2 years

Prices vary between different markets:

Current trade policies silicon

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• Import duty on silicon 5.5%
  
• Anti-dumping measures on Chinese silicon 49%
  
• European ETS political framework being made, might affect metal industry from 2013
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• Anti-dumping measures on Chinese silicon 139.41% Two producers qualified for discounts
• Anti-dumping measures on Russian silicon, 61.16-87.08% depending on producing company
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• 10% export tax on silicon metal, might increase in the near future

?Ideally one, global, free market – with level playing field and in particular highly developed environmental standards and regulations

Energy prices expected to increase, and converge globally

Fewer low cost energy areas

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