Wednesday, October 28, 2020

VIETNAM -MKT REPORT- CASSIA PRICE INCREASE STEADILY

 

 

 




Situation of cassia and aniseed have been very stressful, prices have increased daily, raw material is scarce.
After the Covid epidemic has been controlled, demand for aniseed and cassia increased sharply.
The strict control of cassia, aniseed material imported from China makes the goods more scarce.
China is actively buying aniseed flowers from Vietnam now.
Price of Cigarette Cassia – Split Cassia – Broken Cassia  increased sharply, price of aniseed increased even more strongly, even nearly doubling price at beginning of October.
Some warehouses regret that they did not buy material when price was low, when price has been up ad demand still tall, but they have no stock to sell.
It is forecasted that in coming time, when new crops have not yet entered (new crops of cassia and aniseed both start at March end and early April 2021), price of cassia and aniseed will continue to increase steadily. Only warehouses who gathered material at low prices can offer competitive prices. Some customers have a strategy of purchasing at a time of low price and accepting forward delivery, then this time they are winning big. 





Monday, October 26, 2020

VIETNAM SPICES - A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW - UPDATE 26TH OCT 2020 – WEEK 44

 

 





 


 

1/ PEPPER

 

According to the Vietnam Customs data, in the first 23 days of October, Vietnam exported 15,405 tons of pepper and Vietnam exported approximately 240,000 tons of pepper in the first 10 months of 2020. This is a very impressive figure as the total production of the 2020 crop is predicted from various sources from 230-250,000 tons. Although Vietnam imports from other countries such as Indonesia/Brazil/Cambodia around 24.841 tons, the inventory from the old crops 2 to 3 years ago such as 2018 & 2019 has been gradually reduced. We will not be surprised stock carry forward of this year 2021 are forecasted to plummet and less than so much carryover 2020.

Covid 19 control has been better in many countries that speed up many countries to increase production while inventories almost tight. Therefore, many different countries to increase their purchase order starting from the 4th quarter to supplement production in 2021. This has resulted in many spices items having very impressive price increases such as;


- Pepper; increased by 10% within 1 week from October 16-25


- Cassia/Cinnamon; 10% price increase within 1 day from last week


- Star Anise has achieved a historic increase in 60% within 1 month.


In addition, an increase in the consumption of convenience foods such as snacks, soups, sandwiches, and frozen products are expected to a surge in demand in the global spice market in the coming years.

China import pepper in the third quarter was only 4,131 tons, around 34.9% compare with the first quarter and only 17.0% compare with the second quarter. Total import in 9 months was 40,305 tons of pepper. Therefore, China has started to increase the quantity of purchases for the fourth quarter, which has significantly contributed to the hot rise in pepper prices last time. Otherwise, in the key pepper areas of Vietnam, it is forecasted that output will drop sharply in 2021 due to the heavy effects of climate change such as storms, floods, and limited care from the farmer. That's contributed to stabilizing pepper prices and have less opportunity to decrease the prices in the medium term.

 

 

Other highlights last week;

 

The Malaysian Pepper Commission (MPB) predicts that the pepper production in 2020 will decrease by 20% and reached only 30,000 tons. The reason is due to poor storage of pepper on the farm as well as farmers less take care for the pepper plantation when pepper prices are low.

Export data first 9 months of 2020;

 

- Asia imported 50.7% Vietnam pepper and continues to be the largest pepper importer of Vietnam, but decreased 5.0% over the same period. The leading importer is China with an import volume of 40,305 tons, down 25.1% over the same period; India imported 10,760 tons, down 37.9%; Saudi Arabia imported 9,989 tons, up 14.0%; Pakistan imported 8,566 tons, down by 4.0%...

 

- European imports ranked second, up 1.1%, and roughly for 20.9% of the total export volume of Vietnam Pepper. Leading by Germany imported 8,645 tons, down 5.3%; The Netherlands imported 5,873 tons, down 9.3%; Russia imported 4,606 tons, up 10.2%; The UK imported 4,241 tons, up 20.9%. France imported 3,153 tons, up 41.8%; Poland imported 2,642 tons, up 25.5%...

 

- The third-largest importer around 20.8% in Latin America and increased by 3.0% over the same period. Of which the United States is the largest pepper import from Vietnam, imported 42,040 tons, up 8.3% over the same period and roughly for 90.9% of the Latin America market share. Canada imported 2,063 tons and increased 0.8% over the same period last year.

 


- African imports around 7.7% and increased by 1.0% over the same period last year. The main is Egypt, which imported 7,627 tons, up 26.5%. Imports decreased in South Africa and Senegal with a decrease in 15.3% and 17.2% respectively.


The 3 largest pepper importing countries of Vietnam are the US, China, and India with the total import volume of 93,105 tons occupying 42% of the total export volume of Vietnam Pepper.

 

 

No

Market

9 MONTHS 2018

9 MONTHS 2019

9 MONTHS 2020


1

ASIA

52,9%

55,7%

50,7%


2

EU

19,8%

19,8%

20,9%


3

Latin America

19,2%

17,8%

20,8%


4

Africa

8,0%

6,7%

7,7%


Total

100%

100%

100%


 

 

2/ CASSIA

 

Prices up during the past 2 weeks such as;
- 10% for cassia broken within 1 or 2 days from last week
- 16% for cassia split last 2 weeks
- 9% for cassia cigarette/sticks.


Prices increased rapidly due to a shortage of supplies from China/Indo… while Vietnam's crop output was not as expected. Harvesting is also very difficult due to the heavy rain and storms/tropical depression. Demand continues to increase from USA/EU/… has made Cassia prices are forecasted to continue to increase in the near future.

 




 

3/ STAR ANISED

 

Huge demand from different countries such as USA/EU/China has made the price of anise rose dramatically with an increase of 50 - 65% in just 1 month. Prices are currently high and there is no chance of a decrease in the short term.



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