China’s Unstoppable Gold Imports Continue Virtually Unchecked !

• China’s unstoppable gold imports continue virtually unchecked! 
  by Lawrence Williams, http://www.mineweb.com/ 
  China’s gold imports through Hong Kong in August remained well above the 100 tonne level as the country remains on track to import over 1,000 tonnes of gold this year.
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  People have been predicting that imports of gold into China would slow down – well August figures suggest they may have, but only by a minute 3 tonnes compared with a month earlier, and the country remains on track to comfortably exceed 1,000 tonnes of known net gold imports for the year, with a total of 723 tonnes imported via Hong Kong for the first eight months.
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  Extrapolating this over the full year would give a total import figure (via Hong Kong alone) of 1,084.5 tonnes.  On the evidence of the past six months’ import figures, the full year total could be quite a bit higher if recent momentum is sustained – and there’s no real sign of it slowing down, at least not yet – it seems more likely that the full year figure could well end up at more like 1,150 tonnes.  Certainly, in past years, imports have tended to rise as the year progresses, which means that even this number could be a conservative estimate.
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  China net gold imports from Hong Kong 2013 (tonnes)
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  January        20
  February       61
  March          136
  April             76
  May             106
  June            101
  July             113
  August        110
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  Total ytd      723
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