Sulfur market in 2013 continued to show a downturn trend, port inventory is constantly on the rise, causing many traders bearish mentality strong. Up to now national sulfur Port inventory 2,455,000 tons, Fangchenggang 740,000 tons, 680,000 tons of Nantong Port, Qingdao Port 367,000 tons, Zhenjiang Port 46 tons, 75,000 tons of Zhanjiang Port, Rizhao Port, 03,000, 20,000 tons of Longkou port, Beihai Port 11 tons, the Port Sulphur pressure on the stock, domestic refinery overwhelmed, April, Sinopec set down offers, Puguang gas field plant down 50-1260 yuan / ton, Wanzhou down the 30-1250 yuan / ton. North China and Shandong refinery sulfur prices, solid down 40 yuan / ton, down 50 yuan / ton liquid. Downstream fertilizer market is no good to boost the domestic market is still not free of excess capacity and the lower pick adverse pressure, phosphate fertilizer market is still traded flat, the sulfur market confidence gradually disintegrated.

Sulfuric acid in the upstream and downstream market is under attack from the era of little profit into loss downturn. Shandong market, Yanggu Shalight, Copper recently take the goods is relatively stable, mainly due to: First, there is the support of the of Luxi Chemical larger contract farmers; storage capacity of 120,000 tons, the pressure on the stock is relatively small; operating rate is not high, about 3,000 tons per day; late April, Weifang most of the sulfuric acid plant has to stop or cut state; the Jiaodong along the market has picked up slightly, mainly because of the National Gold device shut down for maintenance, coupled with the pre- more low-cost supply orders, factory inventories low. Weihai constant state, the National Gold, Dongying Fangyuan prices were raised to 10-20 yuan / ton. Yanggu Shalight, for four consecutive weeks without making price adjustments.

April 22, by the China Phosphate Fertilizer Industry Association and the China Sulfuric Acid Industry Association jointly organized the "2013 phosphorus and sulfur market seminar held in Beijing. Carried out a detailed analysis of the report on the 2013 sulfur - sulfuric acid - phosphate fertilizer industry chain. In 2013, China's sulfur imports significantly increased, more speculative reserves. 2013-2014, the oversupply of China's sulfur market, there will be 200 million tons of surplus, is a buyer's market, sulfur prices will be in a stable equilibrium in the year. In the long run, China's sulfur supply will continue to increase, as the market demand for the gradual release, there are still 500 tons of sulfur remaining. 2011-2015 sulfur prices showed a rapid downward trend, from 2015 to 2017, will be steady growth in the low-cost area slightly.

According to statistics, in 2012 China's sulfuric acid consumption was 84.98 million tons, an increase of 5.7% sulfuric acid consumption growth in 2013. Sulfuric acid import and export volume decreased year by year, of which China's imports in 2012 the amount of sulfuric acid to 105 million tons, down 5.8%, exports 81,000 tons of sulfuric acid, a year-on-year decline of 81.8%. "The authorities believe that China's sulfur resources is still a shortage of new sulfuric acid production for the domestic market sulfate, 2013-2014 massive release of more adequate supply of sulfuric acid, sulfuric acid oversupply situation is even grimmer.

Comprehensive view of the entire sulfur - sulfuric acid industry market, the overall trend, many factories demand procurement, limited efforts to support downstream products will still relying on in order to be boosted by the fertilizer market rebound.