China has yet to release its figures detailing its April trade with North Korea, as part of a wider, unprecedented delay from Beijing’s General Administration of Customs in issuing monthly import and export statistics.

Beijing’s customs agency has delayed publication of its trade statistics for nearly a month, with Reuters reporting on Wednesday that the country’s audit office had said there was a “problem” with how the group sells its trade figures.

The General Administration of Customs distributes the data to trade agencies and media organizations, typically releasing the figures around the