Platts to include duties, change laycan and quality specifications for CFR Brazil PVC

Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, will start reflecting duties and tariffs in its CFR Brazil PVC assessment, as well as amend the delivery laycan and quality specifications reflected to better align with market practices, effective June 30, 2025.

Duties:

Platts will include import tariffs and antidumping duties in its published assessment to more accurately reflect the landed prices available to buyers from different origins. Under the current methodology, the CFR Brazil PVC price excludes duties.

Quality spec:

Platts will include additional grades in its assessment, namely K66, K67 and K68 grades. Under the current methodology, the CFR Brazil price reflects K65 grade only. These four grades are considered as medium K value grades, used in a variety of applications across consumer goods, pipes and profiles, and Platts has observed a lack of differentiation in prices between them.

Laycan:

Platts will also expand the delivery laycan to 30-90 days, from the current 20-40 days, to better reflect current international logistics market dynamics.

The CFR Brazil assessment is published every Wednesday in Polymerscan and Latin American Polymerscan and in the Platts Price Point database under the following codes: AAVPZ04 (weekly), AAVPZ03 (monthly average).

These changes were first proposed May 13 in a subscriber note found here and reflect observed market feedback and activity.

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