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China sulfur holds 5,274.25 yuan for a third session on 8 November

Shengyishe benchmark, SunSirs chemical sulfur, and 100ppi granular spot align flat at 5,274.25 yuan per tonne for 8 November; coastal port cover on rawmex still carries the 5 November 1.1062 million tonne line; Gulf November dollar contracts remain unpriced on open English wires.

Phosphate rock. Sulfuric acid on phosphate rock is why Tampa molten sulfur exists as a contract.
Phosphate rock. Sulfuric acid on phosphate rock is why Tampa molten sulfur exists as a contract. Irvias / Wikimedia Commons · CC0

Alberta and Pacific export desks entered the eighth November session with Chinese domestic markers parked at 5,274.25 yuan per tonne for a third consecutive close, a stabilization stretch that lets nomination desks match Vancouver FOB netbacks to a fixed yuan mid rather than a drifting screen.

Shengyishe's 100ppi rawmex page carried a 16:00 timestamp on 8 November with Shandong sulfur benchmark at 5,274.25 yuan per tonne, labelled unchanged at 0.00 percent session on session with opening reference also 5,274.25 yuan on the same header.

The 17:00 commodity spot reference table listed granular sulfur with prior-day price 5,274.25 yuan and session close 5,274.25 yuan, flat at 0 percent, matching SunSirs chemical-grade sulfur at 5,274.25 yuan for 11/08 versus 5,274.25 on 11/07 on its open daily table.

That flat streak follows the 50 yuan correction on 6 November when spot screens converged on 5,274.25 yuan from 5,324.25 yuan on Tonghuashun iFind's 5 November article and the prior Shengyishe header.

Tonghuashun iFind's dedicated sulfur spot HTML that Sulfur Wire tags as SR-CN-SPOT-10JQKA remained timestamped 5 November 2026 with 5,324.25 yuan per tonne, so iFind still sits 50 yuan above the flat 100ppi and SunSirs line until a dated 8 November page posts.

Coastal inventory on Shengyishe's intelligence feed for 5 November still totaled 1.1062 million tonnes of monitored elemental sulfur with Fangchenggang at 420 thousand tonnes, Zhanjiang at 340 thousand tonnes, Zhenjiang at 214 thousand tonnes, Dafeng at 79 thousand tonnes, Beihai at 18 thousand tonnes, and Nanjing at 10 thousand tonnes; no fresher 6, 7, or 8 November aggregate appeared on rawmex at desk time.

Longzhong Oilchem's 2 November headline that Qatar announced a lower November monthly sulfur contract price still carried no verified open dollar QatarEnergy QSP, Kuwait KPC KSP, ADNOC OSP Ruwais, or Saudi Aramco monthly figure on Shanghai Metals Market, ChemNet, or ChemPriceHub English search on 8 November.

October producer contracts therefore remain the last fully sourced trio on the open record: QatarEnergy 835 dollars per tonne FOB, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation 820 dollars FOB, and ADNOC 890 dollars FOB Ruwais on SMM's 8 October notice.

ChemPriceHub's mid-October international roundup that Alberta desks still pair with yuan screens cited Vancouver FOB granular transactions at 830 to 840 dollars per tonne and Middle East spot FOB ex-Iran at 740 to 790 dollars for the week of 15 October, the competition set for Pacific nominations until fresher open dollar bands print.

For machine-readable China rows, china-benchmark-daily.json adds an 8 November verified_public stamp at 5,274.25 yuan with SunSirs and 100ppi spot URLs; port inventory metadata remains on the 5 November line until Shengyishe posts a newer coastal total.

Alberta Energy Regulator ST3 sulphur statistical releases on the public index were unchanged from the last attributed provincial inventory month on this sweep.

Licensed Argus, CRU, and ICIS weekly assessment grids stay with their publishers; Sulfur Wire restates only figures already on open wires with URLs.

Desk read: treat 5,274.25 yuan as the flat 8 November spot and benchmark reference for a third session, keep iFind at 5,324.25 yuan until a dated 8 November HTML posts, and leave Middle East November dollar contract cells blank until SMM or another open wire prints verifiable levels.

Port of Vancouver sulfur, annual Mt 2018 2.3 2019 2.5 2020 2.7 2021 2.3 2022 2.8 2023 3.1 2024 3.3 2025 3.5 VFPA Statistics Overview (verified_public)
Port of Vancouver sulfur, annual VFPA Statistics Overview (verified_public)