Chinese ethanol imports slumped 73.2% month on month to 25,178 cu m in December last year, with both denatured and undenatured imports falling month on month, latest customs data showed. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now On a year-on-year basis, however, the ethanol imports had spiked from 33 cu m in December 2017. Denatured ethanol shipments to China fell 91.4% month on month to 5,758 cu m in December. Indonesia remained the main supplier with 3,226 cu m, versus 59,924 cu m supplied in November. Another 2,524 cu m of denatured ethanol was from South Africa, down from 3,162 cu m in November. Only a negligible volume was from Malaysia. Meanwhile, a total of 19,425 cu m of undentured ethanol passed Chinese customs in December 2018, down 28.5% month on month, according to the data. Pakistani products continued to flow into […]