Chinese benchmark delivered Europe
Weekly survey of FOB China offers for MCP, MDCP and DCP, converted at the day's rate, container freight and duty included. Full history since 2021.
Market intelligence · feed phosphates
The delivered-Europe price of feed phosphates, read every week by someone from the trade.
Chinese MCP, MDCP and DCP benchmark delivered North-West Europe, import parity, European plant costs, the acid contract and customs flows: the figures and the signed reading you need to buy, sell or arbitrate.
Weekly edition on Mondays · reading in French, English and Spanish · access per organisation, no card needed.
What you find in the subscriber space
Six pages, updated every week, covering the feed phosphate chain from rock to ration. Sources are cited, models are explained, the reading is signed.
European plant costs
Plant-by-plant cost curve, acid bought at the customs price or made from the country's rock and sulphur, against the delivered Chinese price. Map of the 39 sites.
Acid contract and India
Our forecast of the next CFR India contract, NBS ceilings, tenders and a turning-point alarm tested on fifty years of contracts.
Customs flows
Flow map from Comext, HMRC, Norway, Switzerland and Chinese customs, by origin and grade, with bone DCP traced by price and, for China, feed grade only. Cross-read with Chinese exports.
Demand by country and species
Phosphate need computed by the FeedAccess formulation engine on the feed volumes of 29 countries, compared with apparent consumption from customs.
Signed reading and press review
One analysis a week, written from computed facts, and the headlines of the trade press in Europe, China, India, the Americas and Morocco, translated.
Understanding the market
Free articles written for buyers, formulators and sales teams discovering the phosphate chain.
MCP, MDCP, DCP: three phosphates, three uses
What sets the grades apart by phosphorus content and digestibility, why DCP leads in Italy, France and Spain while the rest of Europe buys MCP, and what bone DCP changes.
Read the article →From rock to ration: how a feed phosphate price is formed
Rock, sulphur, sulphuric acid, phosphoric acid, then the salt: at each step a market, a contract and an integrated or non-integrated producer. Why 0.9 t of sulphur per tonne of acid weighs so much on European cost.
Read the article →Why the Chinese price delivered Rotterdam is the real European benchmark
Our import-parity method: FOB offers, exchange rate, container freight, 5.5 % duty. What parity says about the European price, and what it does not when Chinese exports close.
Read the article →Phosphate as a critical raw material: what it changes for a European buyer
Rock and white phosphorus on the EU critical list, Chinese export quotas, dependence on Morocco and Russia: the concrete consequences for supply security and contracts.
Read the article →Who writes
Guillaume Milochau ran feed phosphate sales at Yara Phosphates then Aliphos. Since 2021 he has published a weekly urea and phosphates report read by producers, distributors and feed manufacturers across Europe. feed-phosphates.com is its online version, refocused on the phosphate chain.
For whom
- Phosphate buyers at feed and mineral manufacturers
- Distributors and raw-material traders
- Producers' sales teams and management
Request access
Access is opened per organisation, after a call about your needs and a quote. No online payment: we open your space, you invite your colleagues. A four-week trial is possible on request.
guillaume.milochau@praxed.fr
feed-phosphates.com · Chatou, France
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