𝘾𝙤𝙘𝙤𝙖: 𝘾𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙪𝙙𝙪𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙨, 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙗𝙪𝙙𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙨

𝙄𝙣 𝙖 𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙤 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙣 𝙎𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 11, 2024, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙨 (𝘿𝙂𝘿), 𝙀𝙙𝙬𝙞𝙣 𝙁𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙤𝙙 𝙉𝙪𝙫𝙖𝙜𝙖, 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙤𝙘𝙤𝙖 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙨, 𝙗𝙮 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧, 𝙞𝙣 𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙚.

𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒖𝒅𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔, 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒂𝒘 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔, “𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒐𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝑻𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒚, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒂𝒚𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝒇𝒂𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒄”. 𝑰𝒏 𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝑮 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 9, 2023, 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒐 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒄𝒐𝒂 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕, 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒕 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒓 𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚, 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆, 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒔 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒅𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒔 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒕 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕.

𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒄𝒐𝒂 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒐𝒆𝒔, 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝑬𝒅𝒘𝒊𝒏 𝑭𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒐𝒅 𝑵𝒖𝒗𝒂𝒈𝒂, 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒃𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒊𝒑𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒚𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒖𝒕𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒄𝒐𝒂 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒈𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒓 𝒓𝒐𝒚𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒐, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆-𝒍𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒏 , 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒉𝒚𝒕𝒐𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒓 𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆, “𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒏𝒐 𝒆𝒙𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒄𝒐𝒂 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒊𝒓𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒕 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒔”.

𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒅𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒐𝒄𝒐𝒂 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒂 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒖𝒅𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒄𝒐𝒂 𝒕𝒐 𝒏𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒆, 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒏 𝑱𝒖𝒏𝒆 13, 2023 𝒊𝒏 𝒀𝒂𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅é, 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂. 𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎, 𝒂 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒐 𝒐𝒇 18.4 𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒄𝒐𝒂 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝑱𝒂𝒏𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒚 25, 2024 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑰𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒖, 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉-𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒔.

𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒄𝒐𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑪𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒆 Board (𝑶𝑵𝑪𝑪), 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒖𝒅𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 70,000 𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒄𝒐𝒂 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂, 𝒐𝒓 26.2% 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒄𝒐𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 266,725 𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒅𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 2023/2024 𝒄𝒐𝒄𝒐𝒂 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒏. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒐 37.7% 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒄𝒐𝒂 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏, 𝒐𝒓 185,613 𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒔. 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒄𝒐𝒂 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 488.836 𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝑪𝑭𝑨 𝒅𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒅 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘, 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒙𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 184.291 𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝑪𝑭𝑨 𝒅𝒖𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒍 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒄𝒐𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 70 𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝑪𝑭𝑨 𝒇𝒐𝒓 30 𝒕𝒐 60,000 𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒏. 𝑨𝒏 𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 263.2%. (𝕆𝕦𝕣 𝕝𝕠𝕠𝕤𝕖 𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟)

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