By Stephanie Kelly
NEW YORK, Jan 14 (Reuters) - A tanker carrying gasoline from the U.S. Gulf Coast was headed to Australia on Monday, an unusual route that traders said pointed to signs of oversupply in the United States.
* The Justice Victoria, which was transporting 60,000 metric tonnes of gasoline, is set to discharge in mid-February at Botany Bay in the Sydney area - Refinitiv vessel tracking data
* The route, which one trader said only happens a few times per year, shows participants are looking for other locales to send gasoline with U.S. market oversupplied
* Gulf Coast gasoline inventories were the highest on record in the week to Jan. 4 at 89.4 million barrels. East Coast stockpiles were the highest seasonally since 2017 - U.S. EIA
* Demand for gasoline from the Gulf Coast to Mexico has also decreased due to fuel distribution issues related to crackdown on theft -traders
* Mexico has imported 292,000 bpd of gasoline from the U.S. Gulf through the first thirteen days of January. This compares to January 2018's pace of 457,000 bpd - Matthew Smith of ClipperData
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