China’s General Administration of Customs has limited online access to North Korean trade data, NK News has learned.

Chinese trade figures are usually distributed via official re-sellers, two of which are linked on the agency’s webpage. Both EtoChina and Customs-Info used to offer online access to trade figures updated each month.

The DPRK trade statistics could be accessed by selecting North Korea from a list of countries, or using country code 109. But the entry is now missing from the table, which instead jumps from Cyprus (108) to Hong Kong (110).

The General Administration of Customs did not reply to