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China Warns Foreign Banks: Participate in the Chinese Yuan Based Gold Price Fix… or Else.
Foreign banks that traditionally support the London and New York dollar denominated gold price fixes may lose Chinese gold import rights if they do not support the soon to be launched Chinese Yuan gold price fix.
Chinese Yuan gold price fix anticipated to give China greater pricing power over gold.
Last June year,
China announced that it would be establishing a Yuan-denominated gold price fix. The announcement was just one of many of
China’s de-dollarization initiatives.At least fifteen Chinese banks are slated to participate in the Yuan based gold fix and China wants foreign bank participation.
China is
warning the large foreign bullion banks that they may lose their gold import quotas into China if they do not participate in the Yuan based price fix scheduled to go live in April. Gold imports to China is big business as gold moves west to east.
Click here for background on gold’s journey from west to east.
China’s Rising Gold Power
China has become the
world’s largest gold importer, consumer and producer of gold. Its
Shanghai Gold Exchangeaverages over 50 tonnes of gold withdrawals per week and has reached
over 2,500 tonnes per annum, dwarfing deliveries on the U.S. COMEX exchange by a factor of nearly sixty to one. Now China wants to play a greater role in helping to set the price of gold."
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