Fastmarkets to change publication timing for Australia and New Zealand fats & oils assessments

Fastmarkets will change the publication timing for its Australia and New Zealand fats and oils price assessments to Thursday 4pm Singapore time from Thursday 12 noon US Central time, effective July 23, 2026.

The change will better align the publication time of these assessments with their respective geographies.

There will be no other changes to methodology specifications.

The following price assessments will be subject to the change:

AG-TLW-0009 – Top white tallow, 1% ffa, export, fob Australia, $/tonne

AG-TLW-0010 – Top white tallow, 1% ffa, delivered Australia, AU$/tonne

AG-TLW-0011 – Pure beef tallow, 1% ffa, export, fob Australia, $/tonne

AG-TLW-0012 – Pure beef tallow, 1% ffa, delivered Australia, AU$/tonne

AG-TLW-0013 – Bleachable fancy tallow, 2% ffa, export, fob Australia, $/tonne

AG-TLW-0014 – Bleachable fancy tallow, 2% ffa, delivered Australia, AU$/tonne

AG-TLW-0015 – Bleachable fancy tallow, 4% ffa, export, fob Australia, $/tonne

AG-TLW-0016 – Bleachable fancy tallow, 4% ffa, delivered Australia, AU$/tonne

AG-TLW-0017 – Medium gut tallow, 10-15% ffa, export, fob Australia, $/tonne

AG-TLW-0018 – Medium gut tallow, 10-15% ffa, delivered Australia, AU$/tonne

AG-GRS-0017 – Yellow grease, 6-15% ffa, export, fob Australia, $/tonne

AG-GRS-0018 – Yellow grease, 6-15% ffa, delivered Australia, AU$/tonne

AG-PF-0007 – Poultry fat, 4% ffa, exw Australia, AU$/tonne

AG-TLW-0030 – Edible tallow, 1% ffa, 0.3 red, export, fca New Zealand, NZ$/tonne

AG-TLW-0031 – Pure beef tallow, 2% ffa, 0.5 red, export, fca New Zealand, NZ$/tonne

AG-TLW-0032 – Bleachable fancy tallow, 4% ffa, 1.5 red, export, fca New Zealand, NZ$/tonne

AG-TLW-0033 – Low grade tallow, 10% ffa, export, fca New Zealand, NZ$/tonne

AG-TLW-0034 – K grade tallow, 21% ffa, export, fca New Zealand, NZ$/tonne

These prices form part of Fastmarkets’ fats and oils package.

For more information or to provide feedback on this change, or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these prices, please contact pricing@fastmarkets.com and fats_oils@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “re: International fats & oils prices.”

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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