Blended Solvent Oil Market Analysis: Price Trend, Trade Data and Coatings Demand

Data source: UN Comtrade public trade statistics (https://comtradeapi.un.org/public/v1/preview/C/M/HS?reporterCode=156,842,699,410,276,528,356,360,764,458,724,40,56,251,380,616,826,124,76,484,792,682,784,704,490,702,643,36,710,818,364,203,348,300,620,372,208,246,752,578,320,508&period=202607&cmdCode=381400&partnerCode=0&flowCode=X&includeDesc=true) | Last updated: 2026-10-30

Price Trajectory, latest 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07)

The monthly customs export unit value for HS 381400 moved from USD 3,825.52/ton in 2025-08 to USD 3,946.35/ton in 2026-07 (+3.2% across the window). The window high was USD 3,946.35/ton in 2026-07 and the low USD 2,279.73/ton in 2025-10. Three-month averages put the latest quarter +10.5% against the previous one, which is classified here as neutral. The heading-level series is volatile: the largest month-on-month move in the window was +51.8% between 2025-10 and 2025-11. In that pair reported value moved -10.9% while reported tonnage moved -41.3%, so the unit-value move reflects the mix of grades and the size of shipments filed under this heading rather than a single quoted price, and the three-month average is read as traded-mix movement rather than as a price signal.

The same panel reported USD 809.1 million of export value on 231,871 tonnes over the twelve months, an average of 19,323 tonnes a month. Values are customs returns for the stated HS heading, so they capture the traded mix of that heading rather than a single quoted grade.

The EU side of the same market is one month fresher than the panel above: Eurostat Comext records EU27 imports of HS 381400 from outside the EU at USD 2,469.18/ton in 2026-08 (EUR 2,129.87/ton at the ECB monthly reference rate), -36.4% against 2026-07, on 6,806 tonnes; the twelve months to 2026-08 totalled 52,783 tonnes. On the 11 months the two datasets share (2025-09 to 2026-07), three-month blocks that far apart moved +28.6% on the export panel and -11.4% on the EU import side, so the two point in opposite directions, and the gap between them is the thing to resolve before either is used as a price reference. Import values are recorded on a CIF-type basis by a single bloc, so the level is not comparable with the export panel — the comparison above is directional.

2026-08 is not used yet: 11 of the listed reporters had filed both value and net weight for this heading when this page was rebuilt, against the 18 that make up the locked panel used here, and 2026-09 had no filings at all. Mixing a partly-filed month into a fixed panel would move the unit value through composition alone, so the window is held at 2026-07 until the panel for 2026-08 is complete.

HS 381400 covers organic composite solvents and thinners not elsewhere specified, so the heading mixes paint thinners, cleaning solvents and reactive-diluent blends and does not identify the aromatic/aliphatic split or the oxygenated content of a given drum.

Supply-side factors

• Fixed reporting panel of 18 economies: BRA (76), CAN (124), CZE (203), DNK (208), FIN (246), DEU (276), GRC (300), GTM (320), HUN (348), IDN (360), IRL (372), MYS (458), MEX (484), NLD (528), PRT (620), IND (699), SWE (752), GBR (826). The panel is held constant in every month of the window so month-to-month movement is not a composition effect.
• Monthly unit value range over the window: USD 2,279.73 to USD 3,946.35/ton.
• Latest month, 2026-07: USD 3,946.35/ton, +3.6% against the previous month, on 20,602 tonnes.

Demand-side factors

• Blended solvent demand follows coatings, printing inks, adhesives and degreasing, where the blend is specified to a evaporation profile and flash point rather than to a single molecule, so the traded unit value tracks the aromatic/aliphatic mix more than any one feedstock.
• Related market pages on this site: Toluene, Xylene and C9 Aromatics — Toluene for a base aromatic solvent in thinner blends; Xylene for the other aromatic solvent cut; C9 Aromatics for the heavy aromatic solvent fraction.

Basis: these are customs unit values for the stated HS heading, not quoted spot, contract or assessed prices, and no paid price assessment is used or redistributed on this page. Every figure can be re-checked at the API links listed at the end of this page.

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