China’s 2020 coal imports up 1.5% to 304 million tonnes

China imported about 304 million tonnes of coal for all use in 2020, up 1.5% on year, according to the data from the country’s General Administration of Customs (GACC) on January 14, or a new high since 2014 based on the available data on GACC’s website, and the spike in its coal imports last December alone reversed the over 10% on-year decline until November of 2020, Mysteel Global noted.

Last December, China’s coal and lignite imports tripled on month to 39.1 million tonnes, which also scored a monthly record high volume in GACC’s record since 2014 and up 14 folds on year, as the Chinese government has stringently curbedthe country’s total coal imports in December2019. “The added volume for