In October 2025, China's POM imports fell 5.49% month-on-month to 23,000 metric tons, indicating a slowdown in market procurement pace. However, the cumulative import volume from January to October reached only 247,900 metric tons, a significant year-on-year contraction of 24.75%. This clearly reflects how import sources are facing accelerated market squeeze amid ongoing domestic capacity expansion and intensifying market competition.

In October 2025, China's POM exports decreased by 6.64% month-on-month to 2,700 metric tons. However, cumulative data from January to October showed exports still reached 31,000 metric tons, a substantial year-on-year increase of 26.84%, indicating that overall POM exports remain on a robust expansion trajectory.

October POM imports plunged 22.51% year-on-year, primarily due to persistently high import costs suppressing market purchasing intent, leading to a significant contraction in import scale. On the export side, despite a 13.22% year-on-year decline, the main pressure stemmed from weak overseas demand, resulting in only a modest reduction in total exports.

In October 2025, China's POM imports exhibited high concentration among sourcing regions. The top five supplier countries (regions) were Germany, Malaysia, the United States, South Korea, and Taiwan, China. Despite diversification in import origins, market dependency remained pronounced—imports from these five regions alone reached 17,552.28 tons, collectively accounting for 76.35% of the month's total imports.

In October 2025, China's POM import trade methods were highly concentrated. General trade, logistics goods from customs special supervision zones, and processing trade ranked as the top three, collectively accounting for approximately 22,800 tons. However, structurally, these three dominant modes comprised over 99% of total imports, revealing an extremely narrow market landscape for POM import channels.

In October 2025, China's POM import market exhibited highly concentrated regional characteristics. Data indicates that the top five provinces/municipalities by import volume that month were Shanghai, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang. Despite this concentration of import origins, the combined imports from these five regions reached 22,500 metric tons, accounting for 97.86% of the national total. This fully highlights the current reality that domestic POM demand primarily relies on coastal core provinces.

In October 2025, China's POM export market exhibited significant regional concentration, with Vietnam, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, India, and Mexico ranking as the top five export destinations. Despite this diversification, market concentration remained high, with these five countries collectively absorbing 1,442.57 metric tons of exports—equivalent to over half of China's total POM exports for the month, accounting for 54.14%.

In October 2025, China's POM exports were almost entirely dominated by three trade methods: general trade, logistics goods from customs special supervision zones, and processing trade. These three methods collectively accounted for 2,635.28 tons of exports. However, the fact that they represented a staggering 98.91% of the total volume also reflects the current relative concentration of export channels, indicating that there is still room for diversifying market expansion.

In October 2025, China's POM export sources exhibited significant geographical concentration, with the top five export registration locations being Chongqing Municipality, Zhejiang Province, Guangdong Province, Shanghai Municipality, and Jiangsu Province. Despite internal competitive pressures stemming from capacity expansion in the domestic POM market, the combined exports from these five major regions reached 1,996.88 tons. Their substantial 74.95% share underscores their core competitive advantage and dominant position in the global market.

Looking ahead, China's POM imports in November are projected to shrink to approximately 21,000 tons, representing a month-on-month decrease of about 8.65%. Conversely, exports are projected to rise slightly to around 2,700 tons, marking a month-on-month increase of approximately 1.34%. The import decline primarily stems from ample domestic inventory of imported materials and slow absorption of low-priced goods in the market, dampening procurement enthusiasm. However, on the export front, price adjustments for domestic materials have stimulated replenishment demand, warming market sentiment and driving overall export growth.

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