Unsalted Butter 82% (Lactic & Sweet Cream, 25 kg Blocks)

Lactic and sweet cream unsalted butter at 82% milkfat in 25 kg frozen blocks, priced against GDT and EEX

Bulk butter is bought on its milkfat, on whether it is lactic or sweet cream, and on how it has been kept since it was churned. Codex CXS 279-1971 sets the floor at 80% milkfat, 16% water and 2% milk solids-not-fat, and the HS nomenclature uses the same limits to define butter in Chapter 4, sending ghee and dehydrated butter to 0405.90. The trade grade sits above the floor at 82%: EU public intervention takes only butter of at least 82% butterfat and at most 16% water under Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, and the Euronext European butter future settles on an index for lactic unsalted butter at 82% fat, ex-works in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, Ireland and Denmark. Producer specifications set their own minimums: one UK specification for 25 kg unsalted bulk butter holds fat at 82% minimum, fat-free dry matter at 2.0% and moisture at 16.0% maximum, total viable count at 10,000 cfu/g, yeasts and moulds at 50 cfu/g and Enterobacteriaceae at 100 cfu/g, with Listeria and Salmonella absent in 25 g, while one New Zealand GDT specification sets 80.0% milkfat as its minimum against a typical 82.9%. Lactic butter is made with harmless lactic acid and flavour-producing cultures, which Codex permits; sweet cream butter is churned from pasteurised cream without them. The block is 25 kg, wrapped in polyethylene inside a corrugated carton, and the cold chain is part of the specification: the UK producer gives 18 months at -18 °C or 84 days chilled at 0-5 °C, and the New Zealand producer 24 months kept frozen at -10 °C to -25 °C. UN Comtrade 2024 export declarations under HS 0405.10 total USD 9.79 billion from 110 reporters: Ireland USD 1.78 billion and 245,000 MT, New Zealand USD 1.72 billion and 258,000 MT, the Netherlands USD 1.38 billion and 206,000 MT, Germany USD 832 million and 126,000 MT, France USD 785 million by value only, Belgium USD 771 million and 106,000 MT, Denmark USD 438 million, Poland USD 417 million and the USA USD 206 million.

The buyer is an industrial bakery or pastry plant, a biscuit, chocolate or confectionery maker, a processed cheese or recombining plant, or a distributor repacking bulk blocks into catering and consumer packs. Comtrade 2024 import declarations show China at USD 737 million and 105,000 MT, the USA at USD 730 million, Saudi Arabia at USD 283 million and 47,000 MT, South Korea at USD 174 million, Indonesia at USD 143 million and Morocco, Malaysia and Egypt at about USD 80 million each, alongside intra-European trade led by France at USD 1.45 billion. The price references are public. At the Global Dairy Trade event of 15 September 2026 butter averaged USD 4,760/MT across contract periods, 5.7% below the previous event, with New Zealand unsalted 25 kg blocks at USD 4,725-4,860 and Belgian unsalted lactic butter at USD 4,690-4,770 by contract month; New Zealand prices on GDT are FAS and European sellers' prices FCA. EEX butter futures, in 5-tonne lots quoted in EUR per tonne, settle against a monthly index built from butter price assessments in Germany, France and the Netherlands, and the EU average butter price reported to the European Commission for the week ending 13 September 2026 was EUR 420 per 100 kg, 34% below a year earlier. CBIL is a commodity brokerage company and brokers bulk butter from dairy co-operatives, processors and dairy-ingredient traders in New Zealand, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Denmark, Poland and the USA, against the producer's specification and certificate of analysis. The health certificate follows the origin: New Zealand's Ministry for Primary Industries issues official assurances against its Overseas Market Access Requirements for the destination; an EU member state's competent authority completes the export certificate, in TRACES where the EU has negotiated the certificate with the destination and on a bilateral model where it has not; and USDA AMS issues US dairy sanitary certificates, which carry no halal or kosher claim, so the halal certificate comes from the producer's certifier. For Saudi Arabia the exporter is registered with the SFDA as a foreign establishment, the product is registered through the importer's SFDA account, labels are in Arabic to GSO 9, expiry dating follows GSO 150 and reefer containers meet GSO 323. Blocks move in reefer containers at the frozen temperature on the specification, on FCA, FOB, CFR and CIF terms, and minimum lots are confirmed per product and pack. Send the fat, lactic or sweet cream, frozen or chilled, the monthly volume and the destination port.

Excluded origins are not offered, including product re-exported, blended or re-processed through a third country. Every lot moves with a certificate of origin naming the producing plant, mine or grower country, and nothing is quoted before the seller and loading point are known.