SEOUL, Feb 15 (Reuters) - South Korea's coal imports rose 16 percent in January compared with a year earlier, customs data showed on Wednesday.
Total coal imports are composed of steam coal for power generation and coking coal for steel production.
Details of total imports in January are as follows:
(in tonnes/ in $/T)
January 2017
January 2016 Australia
3,519,995/ $128.84
4,291,178/ $63.00 Indonesia
3,427,560/ $58.37
2,824,269/ $44.09 Russia
1,797,792/ $104.97
1,812,964/ $62.30 Canada
1,028,841/ $158.89
889,614/ $85.92 Colombia
877,930/ $97.77
1,556/ $228.79 S.Africa
781,474/ $93.78
164,978/ $58.53 United States
345,889/ $172.15
267,463/ $135.06 China
324,585/ $98.29
257,086/ $83.74 Mozambique
76,997/ $175.62
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TOTAL
12,226,063/ $104.08 10,509,108/ $62.03
Of the total imports, details of steam coal imports last month are as follows: (in tonnes/ in $/T)
January 2017
January 2016 Indonesia
3,472,560/ $58.37
2,774,769/ $43.50 Australia
2,149,485/ $88.62
2,981,433/ $55.39 Russia
1,177,270/ $85.14
1,444,461/ $59.40 Colombia
877,433/ $97.68
- S.Africa
781,474/ $93.78
164,978/ $58.53 Canada
453,305/ $56.45
151,201/ $58.23 China
229,385/ $74.84
144,287/ $75.40
TOTAL
9,140,913/ $76.05
7,661,129/ $52.34