Signal · Commodities & Input Costs
China's Coal Imports Fall 6% as Prices Hit Nearly 3-Year High
What the source reported
Source-reportedChina’s imports of coal fell in September by 6% from a year earlier, customs data showed on Wednesday, as Chinese inventories remain robust, supply from key exporter Indonesia remains restricted, and import prices jump. Last month, China imported 43.37 million tons of all types of coal, up by 3% compared to August but still 5.7% below a year earlier, preliminary data from the General Administration of Customs (GACC) showed. The average import price for China’s coal jumped in September to its highest since 2024, analysts at Mysteel Global…
- Publication
- Oilprice.com · Trade Publication
- Published
- 14th October 2026
- Original report
- oilprice.com
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Commodities & Input Costs
- Geography
- Global
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 14th October 2026 · 17:27
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.
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Initial Significance Material (47.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (21.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Entity Criticality (2.0/20 points). Initial Confidence Moderate (63.75/100, data sufficiency: Sufficient, Sufficient via independent_corroboration). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Entity Criticality