Platts includes duties, changes laycan, quality specifications for CFR Brazil PVC

Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, started reflecting duties and tariffs in its CFR Brazil PVC assessment, and has amended its delivery laycan and quality specifications to better align with market practices, effective June 30, 2025.

Duties:

Platts has started including import tariffs and antidumping duties in its published assessment to more accurately reflect the landed prices available to buyers from different origins. Under the previous methodology, the CFR Brazil PVC price used to exclude duties.

Quality spec:

Platts' assessment now reflects additional grades, namely K66, K67 and K68. Under the previous methodology, the CFR Brazil price used to reflect K65 grade only. These four grades are considered 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 also changed the delivery laycan to 30-90 days, from the previous 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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