China, India bash Aussie coal

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Via Reuters:

Australia’s share in India’s coking coal market fell to 71 per cent, or 36.91 million tonnes, during the year ended March 2019 from about 88 per cent three years ago, India coal ministry data reviewed by Reuters showed. The United States and Canada had a 5.6 per cent share of the market three years ago.

The Indian figures came a day after customs data revealed China’s imports of Australian coking coal almost halved in May from a month earlier, as buyers held off purchases because of uncertainty regarding government policy on Australian imports.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.