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Russia Boosts Oil Supply to China by 4.81% in January-June 2024 Year-on-Year

08:53 GMT, 20 July 2024
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BEIJING (Sputnik) - Russian oil supply to China increased by 4.81% in January-June 2024 to 55.122 million tonnes worth $32.807 billion year-on-year, data from the Chinese General Administration of Customs showed on Saturday.
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China purchased 8.43 million tonnes of Russian oil worth $4.914 billion in June, data showed.
China's oil imports totaled 275.484 million tonnes in January-June of this year that cost $167.39 billion, up by 2.1% year-on-year.
In 2023, the Asian nation's imports of Russian oil jumped by 24% to 107 million tonnes year-on-year.
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Meanwhile, Russia's liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply to China decreased by 9.24% to 3.515 million tonnes in January-June 2024. In June alone, China imported 663,880 tonnes of LNG from Russia worth $377.857 million.
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