China’s sugar imports in August fell 45.4 percent from a year earlier to 200,000 tonnes, data from China’s General Administration of Customs showed on Saturday.

In the January to August period, sugar imports fell 20.8 percent from a year earlier to 1.67 million tonnes,

Corn imports soared 14-fold in August from a year earlier to 380,000 tonnes.

In the first eight months of 2017, corn imports fell 31.5 percent from a year earlier to 2.03 million tonnes.