China News Service, Manzhouli, September 26 (Reporter Li Aiping) Foreign sources from Manzhouli Customs on the 26th stated that in the first eight months of this year, Manzhouli Port, China's most mainland road port, imported 24,000 tons of edible vegetable oil, an increase of 394.7% year-on-year and a value of 200 million yuan. (RMB, the same below), an increase of 550.2% year-on-year.
It is worth mentioning that in August of this year alone, the port imported edible vegetable oils of 5,000 tons, with a value of 40 million yuan. From the perspective of trading countries, all of these imported edible vegetable oils came from Russia.
Manzhouli Port is located in the western part of the Hulunbuir Prairie in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, in the China-Russia-Mongolia delta, bordering Russia in the north and Mongolia in the west. It is the transportation hub of the first Eurasian Land Bridge, and is a gateway from China to Russia and other CIS countries and European countries. An important international channel and China's largest border land port.
According to the customs, in the first August of this year, China's domestic imports of rapeseed oil were 1.784 million tons, an increase of 41.1% year-on-year.
According to the customs, since the beginning of this year, international rapeseed supply has been tight, and market demand has led to an increase in rapeseed oil imports.
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