DAILY: Sentiment improves in China's met coke spot market

Source: Mysteel Jan 15, 2026 12:00

Riding the upward tide in the coking coal market, China's spot metallurgical coke market also embraced improvement in sentiment on January 14, with rumours saying that more coke producers plan to raise their selling prices in the near term.

On Wednesday, Mysteel's assessment of China's quasi-first-grade met coke prices, for wet-quenching and dry-quenching types respectively, remained unchanged from the previous session at Yuan 1,381.7/tonne ($198.2/t) and Yuan 1,515.1/t including the 13% VAT. Yesterday, domestic coking coal prices continued gaining upward momentum, especially those premium coal types, further boosting optimistic

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Daily Prices

Met coke prices: Handan

Jan 16, 2026 11:35
Met coke prices: Jinzhou

Jan 16, 2026 11:34
Met coke prices: Weifang

Jan 16, 2026 10:44
Met coke prices: Binzhou

Jan 16, 2026 10:33
Met coke prices: Zaozhuang

Jan 16, 2026 10:28

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