Signal · Supplier & Corporate Risk
China September coal imports fall 6% on high inventories, Indonesia supply constraints
What the source reported
Source-reportedChina, the world's largest buyer of coal, cut its September imports by 6% from a year earlier, customs data showed on Wednesday, as solid domestic inventories reduced demand while export constraints in Indonesia, a key supplier, tightened availability. September's total of 43.37-million metric tons was down from a year earlier but up from 42.09-million metric tons in August.
- Publication
- Mining Weekly - Latest News RSS · Trade Publication
- Published
- 14th October 2026
- Original report
- miningweekly.com
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Supplier & Corporate Risk
- Geography
- South Africa
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 14th October 2026 · 10:12
Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
Initial Significance Moderate (39.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (27.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Likely Event Severity (3.0/30 points). Initial Confidence Low (39.0/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Extraction Quality (3.0/15 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Likely Event Severity