North Korea imported nearly $316,000 of sanctioned goods from China in August, while fabrics, human hair and wigs once again topped commercial exchanges and drove an uptick in trade.

NK Pro analysis of line-item data by China’s General Administration of Customs (GAC) shows that the DPRK’s imports of sanctioned goods included over $31,200 worth of industrial machinery equipment, in what an expert called a blatant violation of international law by Beijing.

China shipped a centrifugal pump valued at $195, a vapor-generating boiler at nearly $4,900 and three machinery devices for “treating materials by changing their temperature,” like