Apparently, the recent downtrend in the Vietnamese homo-PP market is driven primarily by the hyper-competition among South Korean suppliers while Chinese sellers decided to withdraw to the sideline, refusing to sell at losses.
Demand in the woven bag sector remains weak. Converters are in no mood to build raw materials stocks to avoid a potentially cashflow tightness amid the cloudy economic outlook. Buy ideas for South Korean cargoes are prevalently at $1200/ton CIF Indonesia.