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After decades of storing the majority of its gold reserves overseas, Germany has decided to speed up efforts to bring its bullion back home, announcing Monday it plans to repatriate at least half of the country’s gold by 2020.
According to the Bundesbank, the country’s central bank, there currently are about 1,400 tons or 41.5% of Germany’s gold reserves sitting at its vaults in Frankfurt, RT.com reports.
Germany began building most of its gold holdings in the 1950s, when trade surpluses were exchanged for gold under the Bretton Woods system that linked the US dollar to the precious metal. That led to a build-up of gold in vaults overseas, especially in New York, under the Federal Reserve.
Germany’s central bank wants to store more than half of the country’s gold within the country by 2020.
During the Cold War the Bundesbank wanted to keep its gold in the west in case of an invasion from the Soviet Union.
But since 2013, it has been repatriating its gold bars. So far it has brought around 366 tonnes of gold back to Frankfurt, roughly half of the total to be transferred, the Bundesbank said.
In October, the bank released a detailed 2,300-page inventory of every single bar it held stored in vaults in Frankfurt, London, Paris and New York.
Bundesbank plans to bring another 307 tons of the precious metal home in the next five years. That means slightly more than half of Germany’s gold will be stored within the country by 2020, about a third at the Federal Reserve and the remaining 13% at the Bank of England. None will be located at the Central Bank of France, even though the country is Germany’s closest political ally in the euro zone.
Germany’s gold holding, which is valued at roughly $130 billion, is the second biggest in the world, after the United States. The German reserve is about twice that of China, according to the World Gold Council, an industry body.
Total gold transferred to date. (Source Bundesbank)
2 Comments
Goldfinger
Ha ha ha. This is funny. I hope they assayed the bars in New York. They might find they are gold painted tungsten. You cant tell me or anyone else for that matter than you cant transfer 111t of gold in about a week. Thats about five 747 cargo plane trips. Maybe the Fed doesnt have it? And if they dont have it maybe they need time to buy some physical and not paper. Still neither does the COMEX have any physical gold right now. We live in a ficticious world.
Restless Boomers
Germany is a CIA colony plain and simple. It won’t matter whether the CIA’s gold is stored in Deutschland, Amerika or the UK.