China's mid-October seamless pipe price averages RMB4,012.2/t
China's October 24 release shows lower pipe, copper and aluminium prices but higher LNG prices. Its comparison period is late September because the early-October bulletin was cancelled for the holiday.
The story explained
China’s October 24 release shows lower pipe, copper and aluminium prices but higher LNG prices. Its comparison period is late September because the early-October bulletin was cancelled for the holiday.
For mid-October, 219×6 grade 20# seamless pipe averaged RMB4,012.2 per tonne, down RMB8.4 or 0.2%. Q235 hot-rolled coil, 4.75–11.5mm, averaged RMB3,268.1/t, down 0.9%; 20mm Q235 plate averaged RMB3,509.9/t, down 0.8%.
No.1 electrolytic copper averaged RMB110,921.4/t, down 0.7%, and A00 aluminium RMB23,570.0/t, down 2.7%. LNG rose 9.1% to RMB6,749.4/t. Of 50 monitored products, 22 rose, 25 fell and three were unchanged.
The survey covers nearly 2,000 businesses across more than 300 markets in 31 provincial-level regions. These wholesale and selling prices include distribution costs, margins and taxes; they are neither futures settlements nor finished-valve quotations.
Why it matters
Diverging input prices provide cost context; actual valve and pipe costs depend on grades, fabrication and contracts.
Relevant toValve, pump, actuator, process-control and engineering procurement professionals
What to watch next
Track the same specifications in the next bulletin and applicable contract price-adjustment clauses.
These are research prompts, not announced tenders or confirmed subsequent developments.
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