Has China buckled on Aussie coal?

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Has China buckled on Aussie coal? There are some signs that it has done so:

Australian miners are increasingly optimistic they may be able to resume selling coal to China, after official data confirmed small volumes of Australian coal cleared the Asian superpower’s borders in October.

China imported 2.78 million tonnes of Australian coal in October, according to government data quoted by analysts and industry sources, which is the first official confirmation that Beijing is open to relaxing its year-long ban on one of Australia’s most valuable exports.

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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.