On Dec 12th, 2013, Ministry of Commerce of China released an on-line public list of preliminarily qualified Chinese ferroalloys export enterprises which have the qualification to apply for the export licenses in 2014. On Dec 13th, Ministry of Commerce of China added three enterprises into the list. Then it refers to 260 companies in the list, with 100 in Column A and 160 in Column B. However, 18 companies maybe fail to be confirmed unless they hand in the absent files before Dec. 17th, 2013.