Clarification of lithium pricing calendar

Fastmarkets wishes to clarify details around the following aspects of the pricing calendar for battery and technical grade lithium prices on a CIF China, Japan and Korea basis.

Prices for daily battery grade lithium cif China Japan Korea will follow the England and Wales calendar.

Those prices include:
MB-LI-0033 Lithium hydroxide monohydrate LiOH.H2O 56.5% LiOH min, battery grade, spot price cif China, Japan & Korea, $/kg
MB-LI-0029 Lithium carbonate 99.5% Li2CO3 min, battery grade, spot prices cif China, Japan & Korea, $/kg

Technical grade CJK lithium prices will follow the China calendar.

Those prices include:
MB-LI-0028 Lithium carbonate 99% Li2CO3 min, technical and industrial grades, spot price cif China, Japan & Korea, $/kg
MB-LI-0030 Lithium hydroxide monohydrate LiOH.H2O 56.5% LiOH min, technical and industrial grades, contract price cif China, Japan & Korea, $/ kg

Battery grade and technical grade lithium prices on an EXW Domestic China basis will follow the China calendar as well.

These prices are a part of the Industrial Minerals Physical Price package.

You can find the pricing calendar here: https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

To provide feedback on this clarification for the lithium pricing calendar please contact Justin Yang by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Justin Yang, re: lithium pricing calendar.” 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 https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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