Monthly Price Monitoring of Yellow Phosphorus in China Obviously, yellow phosphorus price started rocketing up from Sept., the time dry season comes in China usually. The price broke away the stable trend during March–Aug. to meet a dramatic growth of about USD600/t–USD900/t. Figure Monthly exwork price change of Yellow phosphorus is listed below in China, 2011
Even though yellow phosphorus price meets a nose-dive recently based on the top price of USD3,048/t in Oct. 2011, it still lingers on a high level on the whole. According to the detailed statistics, yellow phosphorus price in the first half of Nov. 2011 maintains at USD2,783/t. It can be detected that this sharp price downturn of yellow phosphorus appeared in the second half of Oct. 2011 actually, and worsens this month. In the coming months, the price will probably not decline much, because of rigid demand and supply shortage during recent dry season. Price of yellow phosphorus is expected to keep uptrend in the remainder of 2011, primarily thanks to the continuously increasing demand, impacted production and increasing production cost.
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