According to the price monitoring of business associations, the price of lithium carbonate in East China market showed a downward trend in March, and the prices of enterprises in other regions also showed a downward trend. On March 27, the average price of industrial lithium carbonate in East China was 69800 yuan/ton, which was – 4.9% lower at the end of the month than at the beginning of the month. The average price of battery-grade lithium carbonate on March 27 was 80200 yuan/ton, which was down – 3.61% at the end of the month compared with the beginning of the month.

From the observation of market changes, the production of lithium carbonate resumed after March, and the production of lithium carbonate increased in some areas, which led to a relative downward trend in prices. In addition, salt lakes and Tianqi have begun to release capacity in an all-round way, which has led to a downward trend in lithium carbonate prices. And some enterprises in order to increase orders, lower prices, but also led to the overall market price down.

At present, there are two levels of differentiation between large enterprises and small and medium enterprises in the lithium carbonate market. The orders of large enterprises are abundant and stable, and the prices remain firm. In order to seize the market price, small and medium-sized enterprises have relatively low preferential prices, so the lithium carbonate trading range is relatively large. The comprehensive price of industrial grade lithium carbonate is between 68 and 85 thousand yuan/ton, and that of battery grade lithium carbonate is between 78 and 85 thousand yuan/ton.

According to business analysts, with the gradual investment of new production capacity, lithium carbonate Market output has gradually increased, and the current market demand is relatively stable, so there is no favorable momentum for future market growth, lithium carbonate prices are expected to continue to be in a low volatility in April.

On March 25, the ammonium nitrate commodity index was 107.02, which was the same as yesterday. It was 9.63% lower than the cyclical peak of 118.42 points (2019-01-15), and 38.32% higher than the lowest point of 77.37 on October 31, 2016. (Note: Period refers to 2013-02-01 to date)

Recently, the price trend of domestic ammonium nitrate Market has maintained a low level. Affected by environmental protection control, domestic ammonium nitrate plants shut down more, and domestic ammonium nitrate plants started less. However, with the warming of the weather recently, the influence of northern air limitation disappeared. In addition, due to the complete shutdown of domestic downstream civil explosion industry, domestic ammonium nitrate manufacturers have more stockpiles and the price trend in the field has declined. As of the 25th day, the domestic ammonium nitrate market price negotiations in 1900-2100 yuan/ton, affected by environmental protection, so now many manufacturers in many areas are forced to limit production or stop production and maintenance to accept environmental protection inspection, the price trend of ammonium nitrate on the site is weak.

Recently, the domestic nitric acid price trend is temporarily stable, the market price is 1560 yuan/ton on the 26th day. The stable trend of nitric acid price has little influence on the ammonium nitrate market, and the price trend of ammonium nitrate has slightly declined. The price trend of upstream raw material liquid ammonia has risen slightly, and the market price of liquid ammonia is 3460 yuan/ton on the 26th day. The rising trend of upstream raw material price has a certain positive impact on the ammonium nitrate market. Ammonium nitrate market price trend slightly lower. At the end of the peak season of the downstream civil explosion industry recently, the demand for ammonium nitrate has weakened and the stocks of ammonium nitrate manufacturers have increased, but the liquid ammonia market is on the rise again. The ammonium nitrate Market has slightly declined due to the bad market. Ammonium nitrate analysts believe that the price of raw materials in the upstream market has risen slightly in the near future, but the demand in the downstream is not good, and the market price of ammonium nitrate in the later period is expected to be shocked.

Commodity Name: Dimethyl Ether

Latest price (March 25): 3236.67 yuan/ton

Main points of analysis: Dimethyl ether (Henan) market declined broadly and the trading atmosphere was light. With the coming of off-season, terminal demand is general, downstream replenishment cycle is lengthened, and market entry atmosphere is general. Manufacturers shipment is not smooth, inventory pressure is increasing, weak operation is the main.

Future market forecast: It is expected that there will be a downward trend in the short term.

Price Trend

According to the data from the business associations’list, 55% of the market of powdered ammonium has been running steadily this week. The average price in domestic market is 2233 yuan/ton, the average price at the beginning of the week is 2233 yuan/ton, and the weekend price is 2233 yuan/ton.

II. Market Analysis

Product: At present, the domestic ammonium market is operating steadily, the price is slightly lower than that of some manufacturers a year ago. At present, the starting rate of some manufacturers is generally low, the market demand is relatively flat, and the turnover of new orders is relatively small. At present, most enterprises are still mainly implementing the pre-order. At present, 55% of the mainstream ammonium powder factory quoted 2250-2450 yuan/ton in Hubei area, the overall stable operation; Henan market maintained stable operation, 55% of the ammonium powder factory quoted 2000 yuan-2200 yuan/ton, started smoothly, part of the factory inventory is temporarily unavailable, do not accept orders; 73% of the industrial ammonium ammonium factory quoted 4000-4200 yuan/ton in Sichuan area, most enterprises normal operation, normal receiving orders, normal delivery.

Industry chain: The price of upstream raw material phosphoric acid market is running steadily as a whole, the volume of new single transaction is general, the phosphate ore continues to resume mining, the supply increases, and the overall inventory is high. The demand for ammonium in downstream compound fertilizer enterprises is weakening, and the volume of new single transaction is less. Some areas are affected by environmental protection and other reasons.

3. Future Market Forecast

Ammonium phosphate analysts believe that the enterprise inventory pressure is still not effectively improved, even if the start-up rate remains low, but still not to a greater extent to ease the pressure. Monoammonium phosphate market may remain stable in the short term.

There is no doubt that one of the major challenges of the 21st century is climate change. For most countries, global warming is a serious threat. However, Russia has found opportunities in terms of climate change and the gradual decline of the Arctic ice sheet.

Moscow’s Arctic strategy aims to provide the Eurasian country with advantages in energy and defense, while promoting the North Sea route as an alternative shipping route.

Russia has huge oil and gas reserves in the Arctic. Technically, the Arctic has 90 billion barrels of oil and 47 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, with Russia accounting for 48 billion barrels and 43 trillion cubic meters, respectively. This is equivalent to 14% of Russia’s total oil reserves and 40% of its total natural gas reserves.

Despite global warming, harsh weather conditions in the Arctic require specialized infrastructure to extract oil and transport it to consumers.

Russia regards the Arctic as a strategic region and is willing to make major investments there to gain its largest and most important share. Moscow supports its claim that the crustal structure of the Romonosov Ridge corresponds to the Russian continental shelf nearby, so Russia has the sole right to exploit most of the Arctic region. To this end, the Arctic research vessel was dispatched to the area in 2007.