The most active PTA contract for May 2020 delivery lost 2 yuan (about 28.56 U.S. cents) to close at 3,852 yuan per tonne.
On Friday, the total trading volume for 12 listed PTA futures contracts on the ZCE was about 1.18 million lots with a turnover of 22.74 billion yuan.
As the world's largest producer and consumer of PTA, China listed PTA futures on the ZCE in 2006 and opened them to international investors in November 2018.
PTA, a commodity chemical and textile raw material, is a downstream product of petroleum and one of the most important bulk organic raw materials in China.
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