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1 min read
Oct 2026

Asia–Europe freight rates are flattening again — what that actually means for sourcing

Spot rates easing back doesn't undo the last few years of supplier diversification — and buyers who assume it does are about to make a lazy mistake.

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Market analysis
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Sep 2026

Sample article: how a product sheet like this is meant to read

Placeholder text, a cover image and a data table together, built to the same shape as the BDO product sheet shared in the handover — for review before real figures go in.

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Market analysis
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Sep 2026

Anti-dumping duty on Chinese PBTC for water treatment chemicals now reaches up to 192 percent and the Commission’s case file delivers the market figures along with it

Since 22 September 2026, a definitive anti-dumping duty has applied to 2-phosphonobutane-1,2,4-tricarboxylic acid and its sodium salt from China, known in the trade as PBTC.

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Market analysis
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Sep 2026

Buying citric acid from China gets harder to price for Europe, as Brussels has been reviewing the level of its anti-dumping duties since 14 September

Citric acid and trisodium citrate dihydrate from China have been subject to an EU anti-dumping duty since 2008.

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Sourcing
3 min read
Sep 2026

I buy chemicals in China and I look at a different region in Asia every week

This week it was the interior, and there are plants coming on stream there that hardly anyone in Europe has on their radar.

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Market analysis
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Sep 2026

Sourcing chemicals in Asia after a week of Coaching Asia means knowing China’s calendar and the structures behind a producer

Every morning, I use my Coaching Asia to look at what is moving in Asia and the Middle East and what it could mean for sourcing in Europe.

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Market analysis
2 min read
Sep 2026

China’s statistics bureau publishes a number every month that runs ahead of the price round and nobody in European purchasing reads it

A suggestion on how to get Chinese market information in purchasing without paying for it.

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Sourcing
1 min read
Sep 2026

Even after more than 20 years of doing business in Asia, I still come across producers, plants and raw material chains that barely appear in the usual European market overviews

During my current market analysis in China, several developments caught my attention.

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Market analysis
2 min read
Sep 2026

Upstream stages and ports are reshaping the buying agenda

Notes from this week in my Asia coaching — the news item itself is rarely the news. The stage it happens on is.

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Market analysis
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Sep 2026

EU anti-dumping duties are quietly reshaping which Asian chemicals move west

A fresh anti-dumping measure rarely closes a trade lane outright — it just changes who can still afford to use it, and that's the part worth watching.

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Market analysis
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Sep 2026

What happens when a producer in Asia loses its most important sales market?

In discussions with chemical producers in China and India, I am almost always shown the same figures: capacity, utilisation and price. But they only show me the production side.

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Market analysis
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Aug 2026

I am rebuilding my anti-dumping overview from scratch, because a range of 105 to 114 percent is of no use to anyone in purchasing

57 products are in it, from lysine to terephthalic acid. Every duty currently in force, every ongoing investigation and the cases that are taking shape.

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Sourcing
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Aug 2026

Why more chemical suppliers from the Gulf are looking to Europe

Gulf producers are no longer just exporting on price. Here's what's actually changing, and what it means for buyers used to sourcing from Asia.

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Market analysis
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Jul 2026

Epoxy resin capacity growth in East Asia and its effect on European prices

An overview of which new plants are actually starting up and which are still just announcements.

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