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By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read BEIJING, Jan 14 (Reuters) - China’s 2020 crude oil imports totalled 542.39 million tonnes, according to data from the General Administration of Customs on Thursday. * China 2020 natural gas imports at 101.66 million tonnes - customs * China 2020 refined oil products exports at 61.83 million tonnes - customs * China 2020 soybean imports at 100.33 million tonnes - customs * China 2020 meat imports at 9.91 million tonnes- customs * China 2020 iron ore imports at 1.17 billion tonnes - customs * China 2020 coal imports at 303.99 million tonnes - customs * China 2020 r...

(Adds chart) BEIJING, Jan 14 (Reuters) - China imported 9.91 million tonnes of meat in 2020, customs data showed on Thursday, as the world’s biggest consumer of meat stocked up on proteins after a further plunge in its pork output. Shipments were up 60.4% on the year before and came after China’s output of pork, its staple meat, slumped 19% in the first half. That followed an even bigger drop during 2019 when the fatal pig disease African swine fever ravaged its vast hog herd. China’s General Administration of Customs only began releasing monthly data for all meats combined last year bu...

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read SHANGHAI, Dec 19 (Reuters) - China will accelerate the rollout of futures and options for natural gas, refined oil and peanuts to help price discovery, a senior securities regulator said on Saturday. Fang Xinghai, vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, also told a forum in Shenzhen that the country’s planned expansion of its capital markets would require a more sophisticated financial derivative market. “Currently, China’s financial futures and options market is at an early stage of development,” Fang said in a speech that was publishe...

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read BEIJING, Jan 11 (Reuters) - China’s newly launched live hog futures tumbled to reach limit down on their second day of trading on the Dalian Commodity Exchange on expectations that the hog herd size will increase as new farms start up. The front-month September contract closed 8% down at 26,030 yuan/tonne ($4,019.95) on Monday, after falling nearly 13% on its debut on Friday. “The live hog prices are relatively high, and it is the industry consensus to go short on the futures, to hedge, as the market expects pork prices to fall sharply this year,” said Wang X...

* Increasing pork output, weak demand to pressure prices - analysts * High margin requirements to reduce contract’s initial hedging use - consultant (Updates with closing prices, comment, charts) SHANGHAI/BEIJING, Jan 8 (Reuters) - China’s live hog futures tumbled in their debut on the Dalian Commodity Exchange, with analysts attributing the sell-off to the contract’s high listing price and expectations of increasing supplies. The front-month September contract closed 12.6% lower at 28,290 yuan ($4,376.95) per tonne on Friday versus its 30,680 yuan listing price. Trading volume stood at...