Despite steady export buying from China, India, and Mexico, domestic pricing for US mills held or dropped this month because of extremely weak demand for recovered paper.Export impacted bulk grade prices up slightly for old corrugated containers (OCC), special news deink quality old newspapers (ONP) No. 8, and mixed paper, while reduced end-product demand, downtime, and inventory reductions by some tissue and deinked pulp mills knocked down both high grade deinking material and pulp substitute prices, contacts said. Pulp subs were down roughly $10-20/ton this month compared with March's levels.
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