Correction to bauxite, CIF China price on February 20

Fastmarkets has corrected its MB-BX-0016 Bauxite, cif China, price assessment, which was published incorrectly on Friday February 20.

The published price assessment on Friday February 20 was published incorrectly due to a procedural error and has been invalidated.

Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated to reflect this change.

The assessment was last published on February 13, and the next publication date will be February 27.

The assessment follows the Chinese holiday calendar.

The following assessment was affected: MB-BX-0016 Bauxite, cif China, $ per dmt

This price is part of the Fastmarkets base metals price package.

For more information or to provide feedback on this correction notice, or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to this price, please contact pricing@fastmarkets.com and basemetals@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “re: bauxite, cif China price.“

Please indicate if comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.

To see all Fastmarkets pricing methodology and specification documents, go to the Fastmarkets methodology page.

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