According to the Ministry of Commerce monitoring, last week (February 6th to 12) the national edible agricultural products market price index fell by 1.7% over the previous week, the market price index of production data rose by more than the previous week, 0.4%.
Means of production market: rubber prices rose 1.7% over the previous week, of which natural rubber, synthetic rubber prices rose by 1.8% and 1.7%. The price of basic chemical raw materials rose 1.6%, including caustic soda, sulfuric acid, benzene prices rose by 3.7%, 2.3% and 1.4%. Non-ferrous metal prices rose 1.2%, including nickel, lead, aluminum and zinc prices rose by 4.3%, 2.3%, 2.3% and 1.7%, tin prices fell 0.8%, copper prices flat. Steel prices rose 0.9%, of which the ordinary high speed wire rod, round steel, steel prices rose 1.4%, 1.4% and 1.3% respectively. Fertilizer prices rose 0.5%, of which three yuan of urea, compound fertilizer, potassium chloride, diammonium phosphate prices rose by 0.8%, 0.3%, 0.2% and 0.2%. Coal prices fell 0.2%, of which the price of steam coal fell by 0.4%, coking coal prices rose by 0.5%, anthracite prices remained stable.