Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Brazilian demand boosts US ethanol exports to all-time high in Nov

Platts
London (Platts)--16Jan2012/1103 am EST/1603 GMT

US ethanol exports hit a new monthly all-time high of 577.1 million liters in November as Brazil, the world's second-largest producer of the biofuel, imported record volumes to make up for a shortfall in domestic production, official US government data show.

The previous record high was in July, when the US shipped 482.2 million liters of the biofuel.

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