Acetic acid Price 2026: Trend by Country, Producers and Outages

Acetic acid price by country

One row per country: FOB exports for net exporters, CIF imports for net importers, monthly unit values from national customs statistics.

In verification: Spain (latest customs month April 2026); France; South Korea; Malaysia (latest customs month April 2026); Saudi Arabia; Singapore; Turkey. Each is added as soon as its customs record has enough recent months to publish a reliable monthly price.

Acetic acid price trend, last four quarters

Acetic acid price history since 2015

Annual average unit values from national customs statistics, 2015 to 2025, for each published country (value over net weight of the year, same basis as the monthly series). It places today's price in the cycle: how far it sits from the long-run low, high and average.

"Above" counts the yearly averages the figure beats.

Acetic acid price outlook by region

Acetic acid price by country: desk notes

The desk writes a quarterly note for each published country: India, United States, Mexico, Germany, Japan, Belgium, Thailand, Brazil, Indonesia, Netherlands, Italy, United Kingdom, Canada. India's CIF import price averaged USD 500 per t in the second quarter, +42.7% against the first quarter. All country notes →

What moved the acetic acid price in April 2026?

No plant outage or capacity event was recorded for this period; the moves reflect trade flows and feedstock.

Acetic acid plant maintenance and outages

No running or scheduled shutdown is recorded yet; the desk adds them from company filings and exchange notices as they are announced.

Who produces acetic acid?

36 plants across 4 region(s) are in the registry, each from a filing or company release. The public page lists the producers; sites, capacities, status, outages and the turnaround calendar are in the Group and All-access dashboards.

• Asia Pacific: Guangdong Shengyuanda, Hebei Jiantao (Kingboard), Celanese (Nanjing) Chemical Co, Jiangsu Sopo Chemical Co, Guangxi Huayi, Yankuang Lunan Chemical, Xinjiang Hezhong New Materials, Zhejiang Petrochemical, Inner Mongolia Zhuozheng Coal Chemical, Shenghong Refining & Chemical, Hengli Petrochemical, Shandong Hualu Hengsheng Chemical, Shanghai Huayi, Jingmen Qianxin, Anhui Huayi Chemical, Henan Longyu, INEOS YPC Acetyls (Nanjing), Yangtze River Acetyls (YARACO), Sinopec Great Wall Energy, Henan Shunda, Yanchang Yulin, Tianjin Bohai Chemical, Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals, Lotte INEOS Chemical, INEOS PCG Acetyls Sdn Bhd, Celanese Corporation, Formosa INEOS Chemicals Corporation (28 plants)
• Europe: INEOS Acetyls (1 plant)
• Middle East: Fanavaran Petrochemical Company, International Acetyl Company (2 plants)
• North America: Celanese Corporation, INEOS Acetyls, LyondellBasell Industries, Eastman Chemical Company (5 plants)

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How is the acetic acid price assessed?

Trade-implied from customs data (rule v3, 29 Sep 2026). Trade-implied unit value: the customs value of a country's monthly trade in the commodity's HS code divided by the customs tonnage, from national customs statistics as compiled by UN Comtrade, on the world-partner total. Exports FOB are used for net exporters and imports CIF for net importers, so each country line is the leg that carries the volume. The tonnage is the as-shipped weight recorded by customs, so lye and solution products are priced on shipped tonnes, not contained product. A month is published only when its tonnage clears the volume floor and the figure passes the desk's checks against the previous months and the other countries; a month that fails is held, not estimated. A figure marked rev was revised after first publication and the earlier value stays in the record.

A quarter is the mean of its published months. Years before the monthly series are customs annual totals (value over net weight); years under 1,200 t traded are left out. The world figure is the tonnage-weighted mean of the countries sharing the latest month. "rev" marks a revised figure; the earlier value stays in the record. Every number is computed from the customs record and verified by the research desk; nothing is typed in.

Primary source: national customs statistics as compiled in UN Comtrade (monthly, HS 291521, world partner), classified under the WCO Harmonized System.

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Cite as: Douglas Insights, Acetic acid price by country, April 2026, https://www.douglasinsights.com/prices/acetic-acid/, accessed 1 October 2026.