With uranium demand set to be strong in the coming decades, Mongolia is positioning itself as a strategic player and a significant contributor in the global climate effort.
Starting from February, Mongolia’s largest state-owned coal enterprises, Erdenes-Tavantolgoi JSC, will stop signing direct sales agreement with Chinese buyers. Instead, the company’s coal will be auctioned on the Mongolia Stock Exchange, which will increase transparency and ultimately bring higher returns
BC Card, the financial services wing of South Korea’s major telecom company KT, will work with the central bank of Mongolia to establish a payment linkage system between South Korea and Mongolia. Mongolians can use their national payment system using
Mongolia has asked Rio Tinto, its partner in the huge Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine in the Gobi desert, not to further increase its estimated USD 7.06 billion budget for the project’s expansion, its mining minister told Reuters.
South Korean telecommunications giant KT Corp signed a partnership deal with the Mongolian government to secure a stable supply of some 80 kinds of mineral resources, including rare earth elements.
Under the agreement, KT laid a stable foundation for preferentially supplying
In 2022, Mongolia traded with 160 countries. The total trade turnover reached USD 21.2 billion; exports amounted to USD 12.5 billion and imports to USD 8.7 billion.
The total foreign trade turnover increased by USD 5.2 billion (32.1%). Exports increased by
Mongolia’s export reached USD 12.5 billion, said Finance Minister B.Javkhlan at the government meeting. The Ministry of Finance presented the execution of the budget for 2022.
The state budget deficit has decreased, and the budget balance has improved by MNT 1.4
Mongolia’s reported move to modify how its coal exports to China are priced may mean higher costs for Chinese users, and Chinese industry experts said that efforts by Mongolia to change the ecosystem of cross-border coal trade may affect the
The annual inflation rate for Mongolia rose by 13.2 percent year on year in December, data by the country’s National Statistics Office (NSO). The index decreased by 1.3 percent from a month earlier.