Pharmaceutical excipients: Trading

How Indian makers price against imported grades

What this tab covers How it is bought and sold: buyers and sellers, price benchmarks and who publishes them, exchanges, contract types, traders, how Indian buyers price it, recent price points, and good sources to follow.

Who buys, and where

Europe, US, India, China, Taiwan (MCC)

Who sells, and from where

formulators worldwide

Price benchmarks

Benchmark	Publisher	Basis
No public price benchmark		contract

Contract types

Annual supply agreements with change-notification clauses
Distributor sales to small formulators

Traders and distributors

Specialist distributors (e.g. IMCD, Brenntag, Azelis)

How Indian buyers price it

Imported grades priced at landed cost plus distributor margin
Domestic MCC and starch priced against imports

Good sources to follow

Pharmaoffer excipient listingsfreemium research site · Pharmaoffer

API and excipient suppliers

Pharma's Almanacfree newsletter · Nice Insight

pharma manufacturing including excipients

DCAT Value Chain Insightsfree newsletter · DCAT

excipient and ingredient supply news