Dried Cassava Chips (Tapioca Chips, Sun-Dried, for Ethanol and Feed)

Sun-dried tapioca chips from Thailand, Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos, bought on starch, moisture, fibre and sand

Dried cassava chips are fresh cassava roots sliced and sun-dried on yards, and they trade as a starch raw material: the buyer is paying for fermentable starch and nothing else, so every clause in the contract is about starch content and the things that dilute it. Thailand's Department of Foreign Trade sets the reference sheet for general tapioca chips at 70% minimum starch by weight on the EU polarimetric method (75% on the NFE method), 4% maximum fibre, 13% maximum moisture, and no foreign matter other than sand that adheres to the root in normal conditions, at 2% maximum. Softer sheets circulate at 65% starch, 5% fibre, 14% moisture and 3% sand, and the discount between the two is the negotiation. Aflatoxin is tested on the load-port sample against the buyer's own limit. Thailand enforces the moisture standard on chips crossing from neighbouring countries too: between December 2025 and mid-January 2026 the Department of Foreign Trade suspended nine importers at the Chong Mek, Mukdahan and Bueng Kan checkpoints after inspections found moisture above the Commerce Ministry limit.

China is the market. Its 2024 import declarations under HS 0714.10 total USD 619 million and 2.47 million MT: Thailand 2.05 million MT for USD 511 million, Viet Nam 412,000 MT for USD 104 million, and Laos and Cambodia small lots. Cambodia signed a memorandum with China for 500,000 MT of dried chips over 2025-2026, and Viet Nam's chip shipments to China rose to 586,000 MT in the first five months of 2025. HS 0714.10 covers fresh roots as well as dried chips, so world export totals (USD 1.42 billion and 8.5 million MT in 2024, led by Cambodia's land-border flow of fresh roots) overstate the seaborne chip trade. The buyers are Chinese fuel-ethanol and alcohol distillers and feed groups, plus feed compounders in Southeast Asia. CBIL is a commodity brokerage company and brokers dried cassava chips from Thai, Vietnamese, Cambodian and Lao exporters against SGS or Intertek inspection of starch, moisture, fibre, sand and aflatoxin at loading, with phytosanitary and origin certificates. Cargoes move in bulk on Handysize and Supramax vessels on FOB, CFR and CIF terms, and because CBIL also runs a chartering desk (LaycanDesk), freight can be quoted with the cargo. Send the starch floor, moisture and sand ceilings, tonnage, laycan and discharge port and the enquiry is screened and worked against it.

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.