1. According to data from Zhaogang.com, as of the week ending March 18th, the national output and inventory of key steel products are as follows: National construction material output was 4.4501 million tons, an increase of 320,100 tons from the previous week.
2. According to incomplete statistics from Pan-Sugar Technology, three more sugar mills in Guangxi stopped crushing sugar production on March 17th and 18th. As of the 18th, the cumulative number of sugar mills that stopped crushing sugar production in Guangxi for the 2025/26 crushing season reached 17, a decrease of 50 compared to 67 in the same period last year.
3. Data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) shows that private exporters reported sales of 120,000 tons of soybean meal to unknown destinations for delivery in the 2026/2027 marketing year.
4. According to Longzhong Information, as of March 18, 2026, the total methanol port inventory in China was 1.2617 million tons, a decrease of 51,100 tons from the previous period.
5. The latest data from the Fujairah oil industrial zone in the UAE shows that as of the week ending March 16, total refined petroleum product inventories at the port of Fujairah were 14.425 million barrels, a decrease of 1.892 million barrels from the previous week.
