Discontinuation of lithium contract price assessments: pricing notice

Fastmarkets has discontinued its lithium contract assessments after their final publication on Tuesday December 24.

On September 25, the discontinuation was postponed from the originally scheduled final publication to take into account the needs of market participants that still had physical contracts linked to the lithium contract assessments in place.

The affected prices are:
• MB-LI-0031Lithium hydroxide monohydrate LiOH.H2O 56.5% LiOH min, battery grade, contract price cif China, Japan & Korea
• MB-LI-0027Lithium carbonate 99.5% Li2CO3 min, battery grade, contract price cif China, Japan & Korea
• MB-LI-0030Lithium hydroxide monohydrate LiOH.H2O 56.5% LiOH min, technical and industrial grades, contract price cif China, Japan & Korea
• MB-LI-0026Lithium carbonate 99% Li2CO3 min, technical and industrial grades, contract price cif China, Japan & Korea
• MB-LI-0024 Lithium hydroxide monohydrate LiOH.H2O 56.5% LiOH min, battery grade, contract price ddp Europe and US
• MB-LI-0022 Lithium carbonate 99.5% Li2CO3 min, battery grade, contract price ddp Europe and US
• MB-LI-0020Lithium hydroxide monohydrate LiOH.H2O 56.5% LiOH min, technical and industrial grades, contract price ddp Europe and US
• MB-LI-0018Lithium carbonate 99% Li2CO3 min, technical and industrial grades, contract price ddp Europe and US

All short-term forecasts associated with these prices produced by Fastmarkets’ research team, if any, will also be discontinued.

If you have any comments on the discontinuation of the lithium contract prices, please contact Zihao Li or Ewan Thomson by email at pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading: “FAO: Zihao Li/Ewan Thomson re: Lithium contract price discontinuation.”

Please indicate if your comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and, upon request, will make comments not marked as confidential available.

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

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