Amendment to tungsten APT 88.5% WO3 min fob main ports China and cif Rotterdam and Baltimore duty-free price details: pricing notice

Fastmarkets has amended the price details section on its Dashboard and the “UnitofMeasure” label on its Excel add-in and Application Programming Interface (API) for its tungsten APT 88.5% WO3 min, fob main ports China and tungsten APT 88.5% WO3 min cif Rotterdam and Baltimore duty-free price assessments to reflect the correct unit of volume.

The price details section on the Dashboard and the “UnitofMeasure” label on the Excel add-in and API for these prices previously stated that the original base was US Dollar / Tonne.

However, as per our methodology and the name of each price, the original base has always been US Dollar/Metric Tonne Unit.

The price details section on the Dashboard and the “UnitofMeasure” label on the Excel add-in and API have been updated accordingly.

The function to convert these prices into other units will also no longer be available. There are no changes to historical prices, and no other changes have been made.

The prices affected are:
• MB-W-0003 Tungsten APT 88.5% WO3 min, fob main ports China, $/mtu WO3
• MB-W-0001 Tungsten APT 88.5% WO3 min cif Rotterdam and Baltimore duty-free, $/mtu WO3

To provide feedback on this price or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to this price, please contact Claire Patel-Campbell by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Claire Patel-Campbell, re: APT prices.”

To see all Fastmarkets pricing methodology and specification documents, go to https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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