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What’s driving double-digit growth in China’s LLDPE imports?
Report summary
What's driving double-digit growth in China's LLDPE imports? Since 2010, China's LLDPE imports growth is averaging 8% year-on-year. In 2019, we forecast the Chinese imports growth to double, which is tangential, especially given the underlying weak macroeconomics, over-capacity, and the backdrop of the US-China trade war. In this insight, we examine the fundamental changes behind this import growth.
Table of contents
- Chinese LLDPE demand growing at high speed while capacity additions in deficit
- Modernisation of agriculture drives the rise in film demand
- Fast-growing E-commerce boosts packaging film demand
- LLDPE is penetrating into LDPE the regional film demand growth.
- Summary and conclusion
Tables and charts
This report includes 5 images and tables including:
- China LLDPE capacity and demand growth
- Agricultural film demand
- Ecommerce film demand
- Global overcapacity profile for LDPE and LLDPE
- LDPE and LLDPE CFR China prices
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