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"canada-production": { "n": 14, "range": [ "2016", "2025" ], "types": { "unavailable": 2, "industry_estimate": 4, "verified_public": 8 }, "missingUrl": 0, "missingSource": 0, "sampleKeys": [ "year", "region", "quantity_mt", "quantity_mt_millions", "unit", "form", "data_type", "source", "source_url", "note", "preferred", "superseded", "ingested_at" ] }, "us-usgs-annual": { "n": 8, "range": [ "2018", "2025" ], "types": { "verified_public": 8 }, "missingUrl": 0, "missingSource": 0, "sampleKeys": [ "year", "production_kt", "imports_kt", "exports_kt", "consumption_kt", "stocks_kt", "avg_price_usd_t", "source_url", "note", "data_type", "source", "unit_note", "ingested_at" ] }, "freight": { "n": 7, "range": [ "2026-07-01", "2026-07-01" ], "types": { "platform_estimate": 6, "industry_estimate": 1 }, "missingUrl": 0, "missingSource": 0, "sampleKeys": [ "route", "origin", "destination", "freight_usd_mt", "freight_usd_mt_low", "freight_usd_mt_high", "transit_days", "vessel", "as_of", "year", "data_type", "source", "source_url", "note", "ingested_at" ] }, "freight-history": { "n": 42, "range": [ "2021-07-01", "2026-07-01" ], "types": { "platform_estimate": 36, "industry_estimate": 6 }, "missingUrl": 22, "missingSource": 0, "sampleKeys": [ "route", "origin", "destination", "freight_usd_mt", "freight_usd_mt_low", "freight_usd_mt_high", "transit_days", "vessel", "as_of", "year", "data_type", "source", "source_url", "note", "ingested_at" ] }, "canada-hs2503": { "n": 10, "range": [ "2016", "2025" ], "types": { "verified_public": 9, "unavailable": 1 }, "missingUrl": 0, "missingSource": 0, "sampleKeys": [ "year", "hs_code", "quantity_mt", "value_usd", "value_cad", "yoy_pct", "source", "source_url", "data_type", "note", "ingested_at" ] }, "intel": { "items": 170, "years": [ 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 ] }, "narrative_years": [ "generated_at", "narrative_by_year" ], "sources_count": 42, "meta": { "window_start": "2021-01-01", "window_end": "2026-07-01", "generated_at": "2026-07-21T17:28:56.208Z", "aggregated_from": "data/research/*-5y.json via pipeline/aggregate-5y.js", "price_points": 469, "price_anchor_points": 99, "price_interpolated_points": 303, "price_anchors_raw": 118, "inventory_points": 94, "inventory_monthly_points": 79, "inventory_print_alternates": 15, "inventory_observation_classes": { "reported": 60, "interpolated": 18, "reported_print": 1 }, "export_monthly_points": 96, "export_monthly_observation_classes": { "allocated_equal_month": 81, "allocated_bridge": 12, "reported": 3 }, "export_annual_points": 8, "destination_points": 48, "destination_years": [ 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 ], "freight_history_points": 42, "intel_items": 170, "outlook_briefs": 24, "topics": 23, "glossary_terms": 54, "canada_hs2503_years": [ 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 ], "us_usgs_years": [ 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 ], "units": { "prices_seaborne": "USD/MT", "prices_tampa": "USD/LT", "inventory": "MT", "vancouver_exports": "MT solid sulphur (VFPA)", "canada_production": "MT (canonical); quantity_mt_millions also present", "us_usgs_annual": "kt sulfur content" }, "quality_rules": [ "Monthly Vancouver equal-month fills are observation_class=allocated_equal_month, not VFPA monthly prints.", "No platform-provisional 2026 Vancouver months until a public monthly/YTD print exists.", "Destination Other / unlisted is residual to VFPA annual so shares sum to 100%.", "Alberta inventory-monthly prefers AER ST3; trade-press prints live in inventory-prints.json.", "Canada production quantity_mt is metric tonnes; USGS world tables ingested as Mt are converted.", "Price mid series are monthly densified from public anchors; use prices-anchors.json for non-interpolated points.", "Licensed Argus/Platts/CRU weekly assessment series are not redistributed." ], "disclaimer": "Publicly citeable sulfur price anchors only for Sulfur Wire research. Points are tagged verified_public | industry_estimate | derived | platform_estimate. Licensed Argus/Platts/CRU weekly assessment series are not redistributed; where those agencies' figures appear, they are single values already published in open USGS PDFs, BC Insight/CRU news, Argus open news or public marketing sample PDFs, ChemNet OSP reprints, Hellenic/Platts open reprints, or similar open URLs. USGS Tampa contract points are in USD/long ton (LT); most seaborne solid sulfur is USD/metric ton (MT). USGS domestic average unit values (FOB mine/plant) are labeled as such and are not US Gulf export spot. Mid is the reported level or the midpoint of a published range. Not investment advice; markets move quickly." }, "prices_by_index": { "SR-BASIS-VG": { "n": 67, "types": { "derived": 67 }, "anchors": 67, "interp": 0, "units": [ "MT" ], "missingUrl": 67 }, "SR-CFR-CHINA": { "n": 67, "types": { "platform_estimate": 47, "industry_estimate": 19, "derived": 1 }, "anchors": 20, "interp": 47, "units": [ "MT" ], "missingUrl": 45 }, "SR-GULF-FOB-G": { "n": 67, "types": { "industry_estimate": 9, "platform_estimate": 57, "verified_public": 1 }, "anchors": 10, "interp": 57, "units": [ "MT" ], "missingUrl": 57 }, "SR-ME-FOB": { "n": 67, "types": { "industry_estimate": 25, "platform_estimate": 39, "verified_public": 3 }, "anchors": 28, "interp": 39, "units": [ "MT" ], "missingUrl": 38 }, "SR-TAMPA-Q": { "n": 67, "types": { "verified_public": 21, "platform_estimate": 43, "industry_estimate": 3 }, "anchors": 24, "interp": 43, "units": [ "LT" ], "missingUrl": 43 }, "SR-US-DOM-AVG": { "n": 67, "types": { "platform_estimate": 62, "verified_public": 5 }, "anchors": 5, "interp": 62, "units": [ "MT" ], "missingUrl": 44 }, "SR-VAN-FOB-G": { "n": 67, "types": { "industry_estimate": 9, "platform_estimate": 55, "verified_public": 3 }, "anchors": 12, "interp": 55, "units": [ "MT" ], "missingUrl": 54 } }, "annual_vs_monthly": [ { "year": 2018, "annual": 2300000, "monthly_sum": 2300000, "diff_mt": 0, "diff_pct": 0, "annual_type": "derived", "annual_source": "Derived: VFPA 2018 year-end bulk fertilizer 11.5 Mt minus potash 9.2 Mt (other fertilizers historically small)" }, { "year": 2019, "annual": 2500000, "monthly_sum": 2500000, "diff_mt": 0, "diff_pct": 0, "annual_type": "industry_estimate", "annual_source": "BC Insight / CRU (quoting Vancouver port solid sulphur exports)" }, { "year": 2020, "annual": 2653284, "monthly_sum": 2653284, "diff_mt": 0, "diff_pct": 0, "annual_type": "verified_public", "annual_source": "Vancouver Fraser Port Authority Statistics Overview 2020–2022 (fertilizers / sulphur)" }, { "year": 2021, "annual": 2291630, "monthly_sum": 2291630, "diff_mt": 0, "diff_pct": 0, "annual_type": "verified_public", "annual_source": "Vancouver Fraser Port Authority Statistics Overview 2020–2022 / 2021–2023" }, { "year": 2022, "annual": 2787073, "monthly_sum": 2787073, "diff_mt": 0, "diff_pct": 0, "annual_type": "verified_public", "annual_source": "Vancouver Fraser Port Authority Statistics Overview 2020–2022 / 2021–2023" }, { "year": 2023, "annual": 3103912, "monthly_sum": 3103912, "diff_mt": 0, "diff_pct": 0, "annual_type": "verified_public", "annual_source": "Vancouver Fraser Port Authority Statistics Overview 2021–2023 / 2023–2025 (outbound foreign)" }, { "year": 2024, "annual": 3348398, "monthly_sum": 3348398, "diff_mt": 0, "diff_pct": 0, "annual_type": "verified_public", "annual_source": "Vancouver Fraser Port Authority Statistics Overview 2023–2025 (outbound foreign sulphur)" }, { "year": 2025, "annual": 3507428, "monthly_sum": 3507428, "diff_mt": 0, "diff_pct": 0, "annual_type": "verified_public", "annual_source": "Vancouver Fraser Port Authority Statistics Overview 2023–2025 (outbound foreign sulphur)" } ], "dest_vs_annual": [ { "year": 2020, "annual": 2653284, "dest_sum": 2653284, "share_sum": 100.1, "n": 7, "countries": [ "Australia", "China", "Mexico", "Chile", "New Zealand", "Brazil", "Other / unlisted" ], "diff_pct": 0 }, { "year": 2021, "annual": 2291630, "dest_sum": 2291630, "share_sum": 100.2, "n": 9, "countries": [ "Australia", "China", "Mexico", "Chile", "New Zealand", "Brazil", "New Caledonia", "Indonesia", "Other / unlisted" ], "diff_pct": 0 }, { "year": 2022, "annual": 2787073, "dest_sum": 2787073, "share_sum": 99.9, "n": 9, "countries": [ "China", "Australia", "Mexico", "Chile", "New Zealand", "New Caledonia", "Brazil", "Indonesia", "Other / unlisted" ], "diff_pct": 0 }, { "year": 2023, "annual": 3103912, "dest_sum": 3103912, "share_sum": 100, "n": 9, "countries": [ "China", "Australia", "Chile", "Indonesia", "New Caledonia", "Cuba", "Brazil", "United States", "Other / unlisted" 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