Bottom line: Europe is a net seller of paraxylene. In the twelve months to July 2026 the EU27 exported 173.3 m EUR of p-xylene (HS 2902 43), or 203.2 kt, against imports of 135.6 m EUR and 144.5 kt. In the comparable months of 2026 both flows shrank in volume — imports 22.5% lower than in the same months of 2025, exports 15.8% lower — while the implied unit value rose on both sides, from 767 to 1,058 EUR/t on imports and from 792 to 938 on exports. The inbound book is now three origins wide: Saudi Arabia with 61.7% of twelve-month import value, India with 25.4% and the United States with 12.8%, where the second and third were immaterial a year earlier. The outbound book runs the other way: Mexico and the United States took 100.0% of it, one up +117.2% and one down -47.8%.
Data updated: 2026-09-26. The monthly Comext sections below run to 2026-07; the annual Comtrade table runs to 2025; the national monthly returns for India and the United States run to June 2026.
Latest 12 months: monthly values, volumes and implied unit values
The freshest reading on this product is not an annual figure: Comext covers the whole window from 2025-08 to 2026-07, so the table below is the actual monthly record. Two features must be stated before any total is quoted. The latest month is 2026-07, at 19.1 m EUR of imports (19.4 kt, 983 EUR/t) — a normal import month, but a de minimis export line. And 2 of the twelve months (2025-09, 2025-12) carry almost no import value and 3 (2025-10, 2026-03, 2026-07) almost no export value, orders of magnitude below the 13.56 m EUR and 19.18 m EUR a normal month carries. Those are filing gaps, not market events, and are marked as such below.
| Month | Imports, m EUR | Imports, kt | Imports, EUR/t | Exports, m EUR | Exports, kt | Exports, EUR/t |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08 | 10.56 | 13.97 | 755 | 18.89 | 25.27 | 747 |
| 2025-09 | filing gap (de minimis) | 13.83 | 19.69 | 702 | ||
| 2025-10 | 10.73 | 15.00 | 715 | filing gap (de minimis) | ||
| 2025-11 | 12.85 | 17.02 | 755 | 22.29 | 29.59 | 753 |
| 2025-12 | filing gap (de minimis) | 14.52 | 18.01 | 806 | ||
| 2026-01 | 11.58 | 14.26 | 812 | 14.84 | 20.05 | 740 |
| 2026-02 | 22.33 | 20.23 | 1,104 | 16.98 | 20.81 | 816 |
| 2026-03 | 4.01 | 4.99 | 805 | filing gap (de minimis) | ||
| 2026-04 | 9.55 | 9.59 | 995 | 30.59 | 28.24 | 1,083 |
| 2026-05 | 12.47 | 11.52 | 1,083 | 28.07 | 25.76 | 1,090 |
| 2026-06 | 22.42 | 18.46 | 1,214 | 12.64 | 15.13 | 835 |
| 2026-07 | 19.08 | 19.42 | 983 | filing gap (de minimis) | ||
Read against those gaps, the twelve-month totals are floors: 135.6 m EUR and 144.5 kt of imports, 173.3 m EUR and 203.2 kt of exports. Only 10 months carry import data and 9 carry export data; the rate the gaps are missing from is 13.56 m EUR of imports and 19.18 m EUR of exports per active month. The largest month of 2026 so far was 2026-06 at 22.4 m EUR of imports. Twelve-month unit values were 939 EUR/t on imports and 853 EUR/t on exports — customs averages across everything declared inside HS 2902 43, not a market price assessment.
The clean like-for-like is a matched-calendar-month comparison, because March and July 2026 carry export filings that March and July 2025 do not. January–June in both years, with January, February, April, May, June in each: imports ran 78.3 m EUR in 2026 against 73.4 m EUR in 2025 (+6.8% in value) on 74.1 kt against 95.6 kt (22.5% lower in volume), and exports ran 103.1 m EUR against 103.5 m EUR (-0.4%) on 110.0 kt against 130.7 kt (15.8% lower). On an unfiltered January–July window the same figures would read +13.7% on imports and -23.7% on exports, distorted in opposite directions by the gap months. The matched window is the one to use.
Origins and destinations: three origins in, two destinations out
The partner detail is where this market has actually changed. The table below is computed from the complete Comext partner dimension, not a sample of countries, and its rows reconcile to the published extra-EU total. Partners below 1% of twelve-month value are suppressed rather than listed at zero.
| Flow | Partner | L12, m EUR | L12 share | L12, kt | L12, EUR/t | January–June 2025, m EUR | January–June 2026, m EUR | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imports | Saudi Arabia | 83.66 | 61.7% | 97.9 | 854 | 35.74 | 43.79 | +22.5% |
| Imports | India | 34.48 | 25.4% | 38.8 | 889 | 0.11 | 17.15 | from a de minimis base |
| Imports | United States | 17.42 | 12.8% | 7.7 | 2,249 | 0.00 | 17.41 | from a de minimis base |
| Exports (EU27 extra-EU), top destinations | ||||||||
| Exports | Mexico | 134.23 | 77.4% | 162.9 | 824 | 29.73 | 64.58 | +117.2% |
| Exports | United States | 39.02 | 22.5% | 40.3 | 968 | 73.77 | 38.53 | -47.8% |
Imports. Saudi Arabia is the anchor origin at 83.7 m EUR over the twelve months (61.7% of import value, 97.9 kt at an implied 854 EUR/t), and its matched-window line grew +22.5%, from 35.74 to 43.79 m EUR. The change is in the second and third lines. India went from 0.11 m EUR in the matched months of 2025 to 17.15 m EUR in 2026, and the United States from 0.00 to 17.41 m EUR — both from a base small enough that the absolute appearance, not the percentage, is the fact. Those two now carry 25.4% and 12.8% of the twelve-month inbound book, the top two together 87.1%, and the rest of the world 12.9%.
Exports. The outbound side is narrower still: Mexico at 134.2 m EUR (77.4%) and the United States at 39.0 m EUR (22.5%) are effectively the whole book, 100.0% between them, and they move in opposite directions — Mexico from 29.73 to 64.58 m EUR (+117.2%), the United States from 73.77 to 38.53 m EUR (-47.8%). For anyone modelling European paraxylene availability that matters: the surplus is absorbed by a very small number of buyers, and one buyer’s turnaround moves the whole series.
The unit-value question: 2,146 and 715 EUR/t in the same window
Implied unit values here swing hard enough to be misread as a price index: the monthly import unit value ran from 715 EUR/t in 2025-05 (a 4.6 kt month) to 2,146 EUR/t in 2025-03 (4.9 kt), a range of 200%. A customs unit value is value divided by whatever weight was declared that month, so it inherits the mix of origins, grades and terms, and it moves inversely with the size of the month — the highest unit-value months are among the smallest by volume. The direction over a matched half-year, where one-off consignments dilute, is firmer: 767 to 1,058 EUR/t on imports (+37.8%) and 792 to 938 on exports (+18.4%). How much of that is price and how much is basket cannot be settled from customs averages.
The global annual picture through 2025
The annual panel below is the wider frame: the same 30 reporting economies queried every year through UN Comtrade, reduced to a fixed core so year-on-year change cannot be an artefact of coverage. 19 of the panel filed 2025 export data and 23 filed 2025 import data, against 21 and 24 for 2024. Reporters that filed 2024 and then went silent — Japan, Other Asia, nes on the import side, Australia, Other Asia, nes on the export side — are excluded rather than counted as zero. Value is summed on the 15-reporter export and 22-reporter import value cores; tonnage and unit values only on the 6-reporter export and 6-reporter import balanced weight cores that filed value and net weight in all six years, because a per-year weight filter silently changes the population and manufactures price moves. 2025 is first-reported and subject to revision.
| Flow | Year | Value, m USD | Value, y/y | Volume, kt | Implied USD/t |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exports | 2020 | 9,197 | — | 5,103 | 609 |
| Exports | 2021 | 12,526 | +36.2% | 4,953 | 792 |
| Exports | 2022 | 12,702 | +1.4% | 4,400 | 959 |
| Exports | 2023 | 10,614 | -16.4% | 4,019 | 981 |
| Exports | 2024 | 10,194 | -4.0% | 4,007 | 963 |
| Exports | 2025 | 8,048 | -21.0% | 3,494 | 818 |
| Imports | 2020 | 10,952 | — | 166 | 606 |
| Imports | 2021 | 14,722 | +34.4% | 345 | 863 |
| Imports | 2022 | 15,435 | +4.8% | 267 | 1,135 |
| Imports | 2023 | 13,705 | -11.2% | 55 | 1,122 |
| Imports | 2024 | 13,583 | -0.9% | 104 | 1,129 |
| Imports | 2025 | 11,328 | -16.6% | 78 | 807 |
One reading detail on that table: the value column and the volume column come from different core panels, so a row’s value divided by its volume is not the implied USD/t shown and must not be used as one. The unit values are computed only on the 6 exporters and 6 importers that filed both value and net weight in every year; the value and volume columns each answer a different question, and both are stated with their panel size so that neither can be mistaken for a world total.
Two readings follow. Global export value on the fixed core moved from 12,702 m USD in 2022 to 8,048 m USD in 2025, a change of -36.6% from the peak year, with 2025 -21.0% against 2024; import value went from 15,435 to 11,328 m USD (-26.6% against 2022, -16.6% against 2024). On the balanced weight core, 2025 export volume moved -12.8% against 2024 and the export unit value -15.1%, ending the six years at 818 USD/t; the corresponding 2025 import unit value on its own balanced core was 807 USD/t. The 6 exporters in that balanced core are Japan, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, USA, United Kingdom, so the volume series describes those trade lanes and not the world.
Who trades it matters as much as the totals. Among reporters that filed both years, the largest importers in 2025 were China (7,988 m USD against 9,049 m USD in 2024, -11.7%), India (-19.2%), the USA (-53.5%), Indonesia and Türkiye. The largest exporters were Rep. of Korea (-13.5%), Japan (-16.0%), Singapore (-23.5%), the USA and Saudi Arabia. The import list is dominated by polyester-chain consumers; the export list by producers. One caution: a country’s own filing is all that is measured, so a reported fall can mean lost trade or an unrevised return, and this table cannot tell them apart.
Outside the EU: India and the United States
Two national monthly series extend the picture beyond Europe. Both are customs returns for the World partner, comparable with each other but not with the EU aggregate above, and the number of months carrying net weight is stated in each line because a missing weight month cannot support a volume comparison.
- India, imports: 420.9 m USD in January–June 2026 against 434.2 m USD in the same six months of 2025 (-3.1%), on 394.4 kt against 501.7 kt (-21.4%). 202606 alone printed 1,298 USD/t on 68.5 kt. The same series sums to 766.6 m USD for the whole of 2025, matching India’s annual filing exactly.
- India, exports: 228.8 m USD in January–June 2026 against 38.3 m USD in the same six months of 2025 (+498.0%); net weight is reported for 5/6 and 6/6 of those months, so no volume comparison is made.
- United States, imports: 312.7 m USD in January–June 2026 against 481.2 m USD in the same six months of 2025 (-35.0%); net weight is reported for 6/6 and 5/6 of those months, so no volume comparison is made.
- United States, exports: 247.8 m USD in January–June 2026 against 331.4 m USD in the same six months of 2025 (-25.2%), on 244.0 kt against 399.7 kt (-39.0%).
The two datasets cross-check in a way that matters here. India’s own returns show its paraxylene exports rising from 38.3 m USD in January–June 2025 to 228.8 m USD in January–June 2026 (+498.0%), with weight reported in 5 of six and 6 of six of those months. The EU’s record shows India going from a de minimis 0.11 m EUR in the matched months of 2025 to 17.15 m EUR in 2026. Two independently compiled systems, one recording the purchase and one the sale, show the same lane opening.
A caveat on the US lines: the US import series is not volume-comparable across these windows, because net weight is filed for 6 of six months in 2026 and 5 of six in 2025, so only the value and unit-value lines are quoted. The US export series, which carries weight in all twelve months, shows volume falling -39.0% to 244.0 kt against 399.7 kt.
What the company and association record already says
Analysis / outlook. Everything in this section comes from published documents, not from the customs data above, and each statement is attributed to the document it came from.
The demand-side backdrop is documented at association level. Cefic’s Chemical Trends Report Q2 2026, published on 14 September 2026, records that EU27 chemical imports fell EUR 5.6 bn (5.9%) and exports EUR 7.2 bn (6.3%) in the first half of 2026, with the export decline concentrated in “other organic basic chemicals” at 23%, driven largely by weaker sales to the United States at 29%. The EU27’s chemical surplus of EUR 18.4 bn narrowed; imports fell faster than exports in volume (12% against 6%); and capacity utilisation stood at 75%. Cefic attributes the modest first-half improvement to supply-chain disruption linked to the Strait of Hormuz and the wider Middle East, and is explicit that prices rather than volumes drove it. Paraxylene sits inside “other organic basic chemicals”, so that is the macro frame for everything here.
The asset-level record comes from a producer that owns the chain. INEOS Quattro Holdings, whose Aromatics segment its own accounts define as paraxylene, purified terephthalic acid, benzene and metaxylene, reported in its interim statements for the six months to 30 June 2026 second-quarter Aromatics revenue of EUR 907.0 m against EUR 892.2 m a year earlier, with adjusted EBITDA of EUR 30.8 m against EUR 23.1 m — up on higher margins and lower fixed costs, partly offset by lower volumes and EUR 3.2 m of inventory holding losses. Three operational statements there describe the mechanism rather than the outcome: the group’s Asian PTA sites at Merak in Indonesia and Zhuhai in China ran at reduced rates because of PX supply constraints; European PTA prices were lower than a year earlier while European margins were held back by higher energy and feedstock costs; and in Asia PX prices rose, which the company attributes to the Middle East conflict and rising crude oil. The same filing records “commercial shutdowns linked to PX shortages” cutting Asian Aromatics margins.
Side by side, the two records give a coherent but incomplete explanation. A supply-side constraint on the molecule in Asia, a firm European export price and an energy-disadvantaged European cost base all point the same way: less volume traded, higher unit values. What cannot be excluded from the same data is a pure mix explanation — origins dropping out of the EU import book, two new origins entering it, and the destination list narrowing to two buyers would each move a value-weighted average with no change in underlying price. Separating the two would need contract-level price assessments, which this article does not use. What is excluded is a demand-led collapse: EU export value was flat year on year in the matched window while volume fell, and import value rose while import volume fell.
What follows for a buyer or an analyst. Three statements are supportable from this dataset plus those documents, and no more. (1) The EU remains a net exporter of paraxylene by both value and volume, so European availability is set by how the remaining units run, not by the import bill. (2) Import concentration has shifted rather than increased: the anchor origin held its position while two origins appeared from almost nothing, so one supplier’s outage is less of a one-for-one price event than a year ago. (3) Volumes are falling faster than values on both sides — consistent with a cost-and-constraint story, not a demand story. Nothing here is a price forecast.
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Data sources and method
All customs figures above are computed from the raw responses of the public APIs listed below and are not copied from any secondary summary. Each number can be traced to a query or a document that was opened and verified on 2026-09-26.
Eurostat Comext, dataset DS-045409 (EU27 extra-EU trade, monthly, HS 290243) — aggregate series and the complete partner dimension:
- imports, value: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/comext/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/DS-045409?format=JSON&freq=M&reporter=EU27_2020&partner=EXT_EU27_2020&product=290243&flow=1&indicators=VALUE_IN_EUROS&sinceTimePeriod=2025-01
- imports, quantity (100 kg): https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/comext/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/DS-045409?format=JSON&freq=M&reporter=EU27_2020&partner=EXT_EU27_2020&product=290243&flow=1&indicators=QUANTITY_IN_100KG&sinceTimePeriod=2025-01
- exports, value: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/comext/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/DS-045409?format=JSON&freq=M&reporter=EU27_2020&partner=EXT_EU27_2020&product=290243&flow=2&indicators=VALUE_IN_EUROS&sinceTimePeriod=2025-01
- exports, quantity (100 kg): https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/comext/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/DS-045409?format=JSON&freq=M&reporter=EU27_2020&partner=EXT_EU27_2020&product=290243&flow=2&indicators=QUANTITY_IN_100KG&sinceTimePeriod=2025-01
- imports, value by partner (all partner codes): https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/comext/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/DS-045409?format=JSON&freq=M&reporter=EU27_2020&product=290243&flow=1&indicators=VALUE_IN_EUROS&sinceTimePeriod=2025-01
- imports, quantity by partner (all partners): https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/comext/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/DS-045409?format=JSON&freq=M&reporter=EU27_2020&product=290243&flow=1&indicators=QUANTITY_IN_100KG&sinceTimePeriod=2025-01
- exports, value by partner (all partner codes): https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/comext/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/DS-045409?format=JSON&freq=M&reporter=EU27_2020&product=290243&flow=2&indicators=VALUE_IN_EUROS&sinceTimePeriod=2025-01
- exports, quantity by partner (all partners): https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/comext/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/DS-045409?format=JSON&freq=M&reporter=EU27_2020&product=290243&flow=2&indicators=QUANTITY_IN_100KG&sinceTimePeriod=2025-01
UN Comtrade, annual, HS 290243, 30-economy panel (2020–2025), and monthly customs returns for India and the United States (July 2025 – June 2026):
- 2020 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/A/HS?reporterCode=156,842,699,392,410,276,528,56,251,380,724,616,826,124,76,484,792,682,784,764,458,360,704,490,702,643,36,710,818,364&period=2020&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true&motCode=0
- 2020 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/A/HS?reporterCode=156,842,699,392,410,276,528,56,251,380,724,616,826,124,76,484,792,682,784,764,458,360,704,490,702,643,36,710,818,364&period=2020&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true&motCode=0
- 2021 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/A/HS?reporterCode=156,842,699,392,410,276,528,56,251,380,724,616,826,124,76,484,792,682,784,764,458,360,704,490,702,643,36,710,818,364&period=2021&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true&motCode=0
- 2021 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/A/HS?reporterCode=156,842,699,392,410,276,528,56,251,380,724,616,826,124,76,484,792,682,784,764,458,360,704,490,702,643,36,710,818,364&period=2021&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true&motCode=0
- 2022 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/A/HS?reporterCode=156,842,699,392,410,276,528,56,251,380,724,616,826,124,76,484,792,682,784,764,458,360,704,490,702,643,36,710,818,364&period=2022&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true&motCode=0
- 2022 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/A/HS?reporterCode=156,842,699,392,410,276,528,56,251,380,724,616,826,124,76,484,792,682,784,764,458,360,704,490,702,643,36,710,818,364&period=2022&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true&motCode=0
- 2023 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/A/HS?reporterCode=156,842,699,392,410,276,528,56,251,380,724,616,826,124,76,484,792,682,784,764,458,360,704,490,702,643,36,710,818,364&period=2023&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true&motCode=0
- 2023 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/A/HS?reporterCode=156,842,699,392,410,276,528,56,251,380,724,616,826,124,76,484,792,682,784,764,458,360,704,490,702,643,36,710,818,364&period=2023&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true&motCode=0
- 2024 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/A/HS?reporterCode=156,842,699,392,410,276,528,56,251,380,724,616,826,124,76,484,792,682,784,764,458,360,704,490,702,643,36,710,818,364&period=2024&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true&motCode=0
- 2024 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/A/HS?reporterCode=156,842,699,392,410,276,528,56,251,380,724,616,826,124,76,484,792,682,784,764,458,360,704,490,702,643,36,710,818,364&period=2024&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true&motCode=0
- 2025 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/A/HS?reporterCode=156,842,699,392,410,276,528,56,251,380,724,616,826,124,76,484,792,682,784,764,458,360,704,490,702,643,36,710,818,364&period=2025&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true&motCode=0
- 2025 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/A/HS?reporterCode=156,842,699,392,410,276,528,56,251,380,724,616,826,124,76,484,792,682,784,764,458,360,704,490,702,643,36,710,818,364&period=2025&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true&motCode=0
- 2025-01 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202501&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true
- 2025-02 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202502&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true
- 2025-03 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202503&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true
- 2025-04 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202504&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true
- 2025-05 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202505&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true
- 2025-06 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202506&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true
- 2025-07 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202507&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true
- 2025-08 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202508&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true
- 2025-09 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202509&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true
- 2025-10 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202510&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true
- 2025-11 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202511&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true
- 2025-12 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202512&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true
- 2026-01 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202601&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true
- 2026-02 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202602&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true
- 2026-03 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202603&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true
- 2026-04 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202604&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true
- 2026-05 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202605&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true
- 2026-06 imports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202606&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=M&includeDesc=true
- 2025-01 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202501&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true
- 2025-02 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202502&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true
- 2025-03 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202503&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true
- 2025-04 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202504&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true
- 2025-05 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202505&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true
- 2025-06 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202506&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true
- 2025-07 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202507&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true
- 2025-08 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202508&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true
- 2025-09 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202509&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true
- 2025-10 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202510&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true
- 2025-11 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202511&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true
- 2025-12 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202512&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true
- 2026-01 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202601&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true
- 2026-02 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202602&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true
- 2026-03 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202603&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true
- 2026-04 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202604&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true
- 2026-05 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202605&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true
- 2026-06 exports: https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=699,842&period=202606&cmdCode=290243&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true
Public documents.
- Cefic, Cefic’s Chemical Trends Report Q2 2026 is out! (news release, 14 September 2026), with the underlying Chemical Trends Report Q2 2026.
- INEOS Quattro Holdings Limited, condensed consolidated interim financial statements as of 30 June 2026, segment commentary on the Aromatics business: Q2 2026 financial report (published on ineos.com).
Method notes. Eurostat Comext quantity is reported in units of 100 kg and has been converted to tonnes; “implied EUR/t” is reported value divided by reported quantity for the same month and the same partner, and is a customs average across all grades and contract terms inside the six-digit code, not a market price assessment. Partner shares are computed on the complete Comext partner dimension after removing the intra-EU aggregate row and the 27 member states, so the rows are the full extra-EU picture rather than a sample; rows below 1% of twelve-month value are suppressed, and the residual “Countries and territories n.e.s.” entry is a category in the Comext dimension and not a country. Months carrying de minimis values in the Comext series are treated as filing gaps: they are flagged in the monthly table, excluded from every like-for-like window, and never allowed to set a unit value. Every like-for-like comparison matches the same calendar months in both years, because a seven-month window against a five-month window is not a growth rate. For UN Comtrade, rows with a second partner code or a mode-of-transport breakdown were excluded, and where a reporter filed several customs procedures the all-procedures total (C00) was used; a reporter that did not file a year is excluded from that year’s comparison rather than counted as zero. Annual values are computed on a fixed core panel present in every year 2020–2025, while tonnage and unit values are computed only on a balanced core that filed value and net weight in all six years. Where a reporter filed value without net weight, no unit value is shown and the shortfall is stated. The Cefic and INEOS statements in the analysis section are attributed to the published documents listed above and are not derived from the customs data; nothing in this article is a forecast, and no price series here has been interpolated, extended or otherwise constructed.