Saudis Top China Import List

摘要

Saudi Arabia remained China’s top sup-plier of crude oil in August, although vol-umes were almost flat on year-earlier lev-els, according to Chinese customs data re-leased Wednesday.China’s imports averaged almost 4.98 mil-lion b/d last month, up 0.7% from a yearearlier. Imports from the Middle East rose6.3% to 2.52 million b/d, but from Africatumbled by over 24% to 1.14 million b/d,and from Latin America fell by 3.3% to486,000 b/d. Imports from Venezuela morethan doubled to 256,000 b/d, but significantdecreases were recorded from Brazil, Ar-gentina, Ecuador and Colombia.