Antimony Ingot & Antimony Trioxide

Antimony metal ingot and antimony trioxide for flame retardants, battery alloys and glass, worked around export-licence rules at origin

Antimony is bought on purity and on whether the seller can lawfully export it. Metal ingot is bought on antimony content with arsenic, lead, iron and sulphur limits set by the buyer; antimony trioxide is bought on oxide content, whiteness and particle size for flame-retardant masterbatch, PET catalyst and glass. There is no LME contract: prices are negotiated per MT. Export rules changed in 2024. China placed antimony and antimony products under dual-use export licensing from 15 September 2024, and in December 2024 prohibited exports of antimony and certain other dual-use items to the United States. In November 2025 China suspended that US prohibition until 27 November 2026, while keeping the ban on exports to US military users and military end uses; the licensing requirement remains. A Chinese-origin parcel therefore needs the exporter's licence, and the desk does not work unlicensed material. On the trade, UN Comtrade 2024 export declarations under HS 8110.10 sum to USD 282 million across the reporting countries, led by Thailand (USD 90 million), China (USD 72 million), Korea (USD 24 million), India (USD 23 million), Türkiye (USD 14 million), the United States (USD 13 million) and Oman (USD 9 million); under 2825.80 they sum to USD 963 million, led by China (USD 454 million), Belgium (USD 148 million), France (USD 128 million), Thailand (USD 48 million) and Bolivia (USD 47 million).

Outside China, supply comes from Tajikistan, reported at about 22,000 MT of antimony in 2025, Bolivia (about 5,000 MT reported for 2025), the Oman smelter that started production in July 2019, Viet Nam's ingot producers and Türkiye's smaller captive-mine output, plus trioxide converters in Belgium, France and Thailand. Buyers are flame-retardant and plastics compounders, lead-acid battery alloy makers, PET resin plants, glass and ceramics makers, and traders in the Gulf, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Africa and Turkiye. CBIL is a commodity brokerage company and works each offer against the producer's certificate of analysis, certificate of origin, bill of lading and, where the origin requires one, the export licence, with independent weighing and sampling at stuffing. Antimony moves in bags or bundles in 20-foot container lots on FOB, CFR and CIF terms. Send the product, grade, monthly tonnage, end use and discharge 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.