Consumer Staples Jul 29, 2021 08:42 PM (GMT+8) · EqualOcean
Since this year, the diamond consumer market has been recovering, but affected by the epidemic, the upstream mining and processing volume has been decreasing, and the price of natural diamonds has continued to rise. In the middle of this month, De Beers, an international diamond supplier, announced to raise the price of some raw diamonds again, the fifth price increase since December last year. According to the data of Shanghai Diamond Exchange, from January to June this year, the diamond import of Shanghai Diamond Exchange was US $1.576 billion, three times that of the same period last year, close to the diamond import of the whole year in 2020. Liu Houxiang, head of the national jewelry and jade quality supervision and inspection center, said that the rise in diamond prices is still a general trend in the future.