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Decision to discontinue Chinese used cooking oil prices delivered Europe

Fastmarkets has discontinued its two Chinese used cooking oil prices delivered Europe.

July 29, 2024
By Veronika Prykhodko
Agriculture Pricing notice Used cooking oil

After a consultation period, Fastmarkets discontinued the prices on Wednesday July 24 due to a lack of transaction data. The consultation received no feedback.

The affected prices are:

AG-UCO-0013 Used cooking oil, Chinese flexi, delivered Antwerp, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, $/tonne
AG-UCO-0012 Used cooking oil, Chinese bulk, delivered Antwerp, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, $/tonne

All short-term forecasts associated with these prices produced by the Fastmarkets research team, if any, have also been discontinued.

If you have any comments on the discontinuation of these prices please contact Veronika Prykhodko by email at: pricing.ag@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Veronika Prykhodko, re: Chinese UCO delivered Europe.”

Please indicate if the 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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