# Spring 2017 Market Trends Update, Chinese Ingredients

> A supplier update says vitamin C prices rose through end-2016 after corn and coal cost increases and pollution-control facility shutdowns in China, and are now stable at historically high levels. It adds that derivatives such as sodium ascorbate may keep rising, and that L-Leucine animal-source prices rose from mid-2016 on environmental restrictions before stabilizing.

- Date: 2017-04-07 · published 2017-04-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region China · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/71816-spring-2017-market-trends-update-chinese-ingredients
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

Chinese environmental curbs and higher corn costs are lifting prices of specialty feed additives, which raises formulation costs for feed buyers even though the impact on bulk feed commodities is limited.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: bullish ▲

## Sources

- supplysidesj.com: https://www.supplysidesj.com/sports-nutrition/spring-2017-market-trends-update-chinese-ingredients

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