China unofficially drops E10 blending mandate

In China, Western Producer magazine reports that according to USDA Foreign Agriculture Service analysis, China has effectively dropped its E10 blending mandate and will only achieve 2.1% in 2021. The country announced in 2017 it would achieve 10% by 2020 with the market expecting much of that volume to come from US imports until the country’s domestic production caught up. Only about half a billion liters were exported to China during the first 11 months of 2020/21 while it is expected to produce 3.4 billion liters in 2021.