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China methanol prices fall in Dec and to go range-bound in Jan

Shandong (JLC), January 6, 2023—China’s methanol prices declined in December 2022 amid weak demand, and were expected to go range-bound at low levels in January 2023.

01-06-2023 17:28:26

China methanol imports to rise month-on-month in Dec

Shandong (JLC), December 30, 2022—China methanol imports are expected to be 1.03-1.05 million mt in December, an increase of 130,000-150,000 mt compared to last month.

12-30-2022 11:58:09

China's Dec methanol run rate up on unit restart

01-12-2022 15:41:31

China’s synthetic ammonia prices to decrease

Shandong (JLC), January 1, 2022--China’s synthetic ammonia prices have been decreasing amid growing supply and tepid demand, and the prices are expected to keep falling in the short run.

01-04-2022 15:25:21

Urea supply down on operating rate decrease

Shandong (JLC), July 12, 2021--China’s urea market supply decreased as the operating rate in domestic urea industry retreated, leading to declines in output.

07-12-2021 17:07:06

Urea supply shrinks on declined operating rates

Shandong (JLC), April 20, 2021--In the week over April 10-16, China’s urea supply shrank as the overall operating rate in China urea industry decreased from the previous week.

04-20-2021 16:27:30

China urea prices to decline little on demand supports

Shandong (JLC), April 14, 2021--Domestic urea market prices are unlikely to fall sharply in the near term on upcoming agricultural demand for urea, though bullishness from India’s tender invitation has been eaten into.

04-14-2021 17:40:16

China’s urea price declines on supply gains, bearish futures market

Shandong (JLC), March 9, 2021--China’s urea market price began to decline from February 26, and up to March 8, it fell by around CNY130/mt in total, caused by the growing output and bearishness in urea futures market.

03-09-2021 17:06:47

Analysis of China’s urea exports in Dec 2020

Shandong (JLC), February 8, 2021--According to data from General Administration of Customs of PRC, China’s urea export volume in December 2020 read 582,000 million mt, down 2.44% month on month (MoM) and down 31.19% year on year (YoY).

02-08-2021 14:20:10

Synthetic ammonia market remains soft in early December

The price of synthetic ammonia in main producing areas averaged CNY2,828/mt in early December, down 2.71% from CNY2,907/mt in early November.

12-02-2020 17:23:05

China’s urea prices decline on weak fundamentals

Shandong (JLC), November 25, 2020--Domestic urea prices began to decline from November 21 amid waning demand but ample supply.

11-25-2020 17:14:00

China urea prices decline with exports cooling down

The domestic urea spot market tracked a downward trend from August 15. As of August 18, the prevailing price of small and medium urea granules in Shandong was CNY1,620-1,700/mt, with the average price dropping by CNY80/mt from August 14.

08-18-2020 17:03:06

April urea price drops after rising, to decline in May

Shandong (JLC), April 29, 2020--In April, the domestic urea market price dropped after rising as the demand for urea waned, and it was predicted that the May price would decline as a whole amid the aggravated supply-demand contradiction.

04-29-2020 16:16:48

Urea market to decrease amid weak demand

Shandong (JLC), April 14, 2020--The fertilizer usage decreased as the spring ploughing basically ended, thus the urea market lost the largest bullish factor.

04-14-2020 08:31:18

Urea market to decline amid weak downstream demand

Shandong (JLC), April 2, 2020--China’s urea market consecutively dropped recently after the soar for a period before. Up to April 1, China’s urea market price averaged CNY1,741/mt, down 2.19% against that in the beginning of March.

04-02-2020 10:18:59

China urea price to decline on increasing supply

As of March 17, China urea daily output totaled 156,000 mt, up by 15,900 mt compared with that in early-March, and up by 21,600 mt year on year. The average daily output of urea in China has reached the highest level in the past four years,JLC’s data showed.

03-25-2020 09:10:49

Trading atmosphere to improve in Dec fertilizer market

The market atmosphere is unstable for the moment, and the wait-and-see sentiment will keep strong. If feedstock prices could stabilize in the future, the fertilizer market will get more support, and this will make the market atmosphere improve.

11-29-2019 11:33:10

International synthetic ammonia price declines on weak demand

International synthetic ammonia price declines as the demand was weak.

11-19-2019 17:16:30

Urea prices may decline further (Part II)

In 2019, the urea market was full of challenges. The market was not good affected by the supply-side reform, the downstream procurement model and the shrinking demand.

10-29-2019 16:40:45

Urea prices may decline further (Part I)

In 2019, the urea market was full of challenges. The market was not good affected by the supply-side reform, the downstream procurement model and the shrinking demand.

10-29-2019 16:37:32

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