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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 […]
Due to an error, the footnote explaining Brazilian Boxboard assessments incorrectly reads “Delivered in Sao Paulo. Prices are net, excluding PIS/COFINS of 9.25% and other taxes and freight”. It should read: “Delivered São Paulo. Includes PIS/COFINS taxes of 9.25%. Other taxes not included.” The error dates back to March 2016. RISI apologises for any possible […]
As of April 2018, assessments for European old corrugated containers (1.05) CIF China (Price ID 690) will reflect material with a minimum 95% corrugated board content and maximum 0.5% contaminants. This follows consultation with stakeholders and will better reflect current trading patterns, in light of China’s stricter rules on imports of recovered paper. For comments […]
PPI Europe’s April Price Watch for Germany will be published on Thursday, April 19.
Over the last few weeks RISI has proposed a number of changes to its North American and Asian recovered paper coverage, all of them subject to stakeholder consultation. As the changes are widespread and quite complex, we thought it would be useful to provide a simple summary. The main changes are: To stop assessing Mixed […]
In light of China’s planned 0.5% contaminant rule on imports of all recovered paper, RISI is considering the following proposal to expand its OCC coverage: PPI Pulp & Paper Week: Launch new price assessments for US exports of Double-Sorted OCC to China FAS US ports; PPI Asia Launch new price assessments for US exports of […]
Fastmarkets Benchmark Administration Oy (FBA) was incorporated in December 2020 to operate as the independent administrator of benchmarks published by price reporting agency (PRA) Fastmarkets and subject to the European Benchmarks Regulation (BMR). It is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, and supervised by the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority (FIN-FSA).
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