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Turkey receives $3.6 bln of gold from Switzerland, the most sent since 2012

Switzerland shipped 58.3 tonnes of gold to Turkey for a total value of 3.3 billion Swiss francs ($3.6 billion), according to Swiss customs data released on Tuesday according to records dating back to 2012,

Turkish demand for the metal has skyrocketed as astronomically high inflation erodes the value of the local lira currency. Gold is traditionally regarded as a safe way to store wealth.

The largest hub for the transit and refining of gold is in Switzerland. In contrast to just 11 metric tonnes in 2021, it shipped 188 metric tonnes of gold to Turkey last year, valued at 10.1 billion Swiss francs.

The shipments in January, however, show an increase. According to Swiss data, the amount of gold exported from Switzerland to Turkey in a single month has never surpassed 34 tonnes.

The quantity of gold flowing into Turkey has worsened Turkey’s current account deficit, which rose to $48.8 billion last year.

After earthquakes struck Turkey this month, causing thousands of deaths and huge economic damage, the government moved to reduce the amount of gold entering the country by suspending some imports and asking banks to widen the spread for gold transactions, making them costlier to curtail demand.

Switzerland’s shipments to Turkey accounted for 42% of its total gold exports in January.

The country sent 3.2 tonnes to India in January, the lowest for any month since May 2021, and 26.1 tonnes to mainland China, the least since May 2022.

India and China are the two biggest gold consumer markets and demand often rises when gold prices are low and falls when gold prices increase.

Gold prices rocketed from a low of $1,615.59 an ounce in early November to as high as $1,959.60 on Feb. 2 before slipping back to around $1,840 by Tuesday.

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