
The People’s Bank of China and the South African Reserve Bank renewed their bilateral currency swap line at ¥30 billion, or about R74 billion, for another five years. The arrangement allows each central bank to draw the other’s currency and can support payments between South African importers of Chinese goods and Chinese buyers of South African minerals.
The swap line provides a backstop for yuan and rand liquidity and may facilitate bilateral trade settlement, but the article gives no indication of a specific change in agricultural commodity flows or prices.
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