COVERAGE NOTE: Corrections to China OCC Data Downloads

May 2, 2018

Due to technical errors, data downloads to excel from dashboards had been pulling China OCC data with a one-week time lag, leading to discrepancies in the price history versus the published price. This error has now been fixed. For the definitive price assessments, please refer to those published in PPI Asia.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

For questions, please contact pricing@risi.com.

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