China’s coal imports in June fell to an 8-month low of 22.3 Mt (including lignite), according to customs trade statistics. This took total imports in the 1h13 to 158.6 Mt, up 18.6 Mt year-on-year. A breakdown of 1h13 imports into China by source shows annual increases for coal shipments from Australia (+ 12.2 Mt to 38.4 Mt), Indonesia (+6.7 Mt to 64.4 Mt) and Russia (+1.5 Mt to 9.3 Mt). Meanwhile, combined long haul imports from the US (4.8 Mt) and Canada (6.0 Mt) during the 1h13 also grew 2.0 Mt year-on-year, while shipments from South Africa slipped by 1.2 Mt to 5.8 Mt and imports from Colombia in the Jan-Jun period were only 0.2 Mt compared with 0.7 Mt in the corresponding period in 2012.