Prices per tonne
Mongolia values exports at the border, free on board (FOB). China values imports including cost, insurance and freight (CIF). China's price per tonne should therefore be a little higher than Mongolia's. In several years it was lower.
Price per tonne on each side
US dollars per tonne, coal and lignite
- Mongolia export price (FOB)
- China import price (CIF)
China's price minus Mongolia's
US dollars per tonne; below zero means China recorded a lower price
Data table
| 2025 | 64.1 | 62.1 | -2.0 | −3.2% | |
| 2024 | 103.9 | 101.3 | -2.6 | −2.5% | |
| 2023 | 127.6 | — | — | — | |
| 2022 | 201.6 | 162.2 | -39.5 | −19.6% | ▼ China's price below Mongolia's |
| 2021 | 136.4 | 122.4 | -14.0 | −10.3% | ▼ China's price below Mongolia's |
| 2020 | 73.7 | 70.2 | -3.5 | −4.7% | |
| 2019 | 84.0 | 85.0 | 1.0 | +1.2% | |
| 2018 | 77.3 | 78.1 | 0.9 | +1.1% | |
| 2017 | 67.2 | 65.1 | -2.2 | −3.2% | |
| 2016 | 37.4 | — | — | — | |
| 2015 | 38.1 | 37.3 | -0.8 | −2.0% | |
| 2014 | 43.5 | 49.1 | 5.6 | +12.9% | |
| 2013 | 61.1 | 68.0 | 6.9 | +11.4% | |
| 2012 | 90.9 | 76.9 | -14.0 | −15.4% | ▼ China's price below Mongolia's |
| 2011 | 106.7 | 78.7 | -28.0 | −26.3% | ▼ China's price below Mongolia's |
| 2010 | 52.7 | 60.9 | 8.2 | +15.5% | |
| 2009 | 43.1 | 52.8 | 9.7 | +22.5% | |
| 2008 | 44.3 | 59.2 | 14.9 | +33.6% | |
| 2007 | 35.5 | 30.6 | -4.9 | −13.8% | ▼ China's price below Mongolia's |
| 2006 | 19.2 | 17.6 | -1.6 | −8.4% | ▼ China's price below Mongolia's |
| 2005 | 12.0 | 11.8 | -0.3 | −2.1% |