Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE), one of China's three futures exchanges, has drawn up a draft for metcoke futures contracts. The trading commodity is blast furnace coke, with a lot size of 10 mt. The minimum price fluctuation is RMB 1/mt; the daily price fluctuation limit is four percent of the price at the end of the previous day; and the deposit will equal five percent of the contract value.
A DCE official has stated that the delivery warehouses for the planned metcoke futures contracts will be located principally in Tianjin, Hebei, Shangdong and Jiangsu.
China is both the world's largest producer and consumer of metcoke. In 2008, China's total metcoke consumption reached 315 million mt, constituting 50 percent of global consumption. Meanwhile, Chinese metcoke production last year came to 327 million mt.