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Analysis of China’s Phosphorus Chemical Industry 2008
China Market Report, July 2008, Pages: 35
Phosphate ore is the raw material of phosphorus chemical production, which produces yellow phosphorus and phosphate fertilizer. They both consume phosphorus ore accounting for 20% and 80% respectfully. The general definition of phosphorus chemical production including phosphate fertilizer, phosphorus ore and all kinds of phosphorus fine chemical products is that they play a very important part in the modernization of the chemical industry. Phosphorus fine chemical products are widely used in food, consumer goods and industrial areas. With the characteristics of consumer goods, the growth of demand is relatively stable.
China's phosphorus chemical production started quite late, but after the 1990s, China, in particular the phosphorus ore resource-rich areas such as the Sichuan, Hubei, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, phosphorus chemical production developed rapidly. With over 80 types of products, the annual production capacity of phosphorus fine chemical products is over 6 million tons. China has gradually become a large nation of phosphorus chemical production.
Presently the total reserves of the world's Phosphorus ore is roughly 45.78 billion tons, which is mainly concentrated in Morocco, China, the United States and the former Soviet Union, South Africa and other countries. China is one of the world's major manufacturing nations, with phosphorus ore resources at nearly 50 billion tons, which is only behind the world No1, Morocco. However, phosphorus ore resources in China are in large quantity but they lack in quality. Due to the scarcity of phosphorus ore resources, every country has started to gradually restrict the its exports.
The high oil prices and bio-energy have caused the world food crisis in recent years, which has pushed the price of phosphate fertilizer up. Since 2007, in terms of the rising production costs and strong demands, the price of phosphate fertilizer has increased sharply. Meanwhile, the price of phosphorus ore and phosphorus chemical products has also increased. In order to ensure the domestic supply of phosphate fertilizer and food security, China has issued a policy of restrictions on phosphate fertilizer exports but, the global price has continued to rise. The gap between global and domestic prices has continued to grow. The increase of the exports tariff has made it difficult to curb exports. Therefore, the shortage of domestic phosphate fertilizer will remain for the future.
The impact of the new export tariff on phosphorus export enterprises is relatively very small. The tariff adjustments, primarily for agricultural production and related chemical fertilizers and materials, with regard to the phosphorus chemical enterprises are mainly involved in the phosphate fertilizer and phosphorus ore export tariffs. It does not have a direct impact on phosphorus chemical companies. But, on the other hand, in terms of the shortage of the world phosphorus ore has gradually intensified. The price of phosphorus chemical products will also face a long-term upward trend. But, for Chinese phosphorus chemical companies, the advantage is the relative low price of phosphorus ore and energy, which will promote Chinese companies’ competitiveness and enhance their profitability.
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