China's revised plastic ban took full effect on August 15. The regulation shifts the policy from voluntary initiatives to mandatory compliance, with significant implications for the PE packaging film industry, particularly for supermarket shopping bags and express delivery packaging, two of the sect

CBSA has recently initiated anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations into truck and bus tires originating from China, adding to the mounting pressures on Chinese manufacturers already struggling with rising costs, high freight rates, and RMB appreciation, despite a small share of China's

China's PP market will enter a critical window for concentrated capacity commissioning in September, but the actual supply increments are likely to be limited, given the realities of commissioning schedules and maintenance dynamics.

China's PE supply is expected to increase in September, thanks to the restart of existing units and a modest rebound in imports. However, the absence of new capacity and still-high maintenance losses will jointly limit the overall supply increase.

Uncertainties over China's metallurgical coke market are likely to intensify in mid-to-late September, although prices are still expected to see further increases in the first half of the month. The major risk lies in a potential softening in coke demand if the downstream steel market fails to impro