COMEX trades in 1 kg, 100 oz bars; ONLY

By effectively capping imports of these bar types, the move raises the stakes for COMEX short sellers, whose ability to source bars for delivery just got more complicated. They are trying to end price manipulation. It pressures the Swiss refining system, and reasserts New York as the central arena for price discovery, and ensures that if gold is going to play a larger role in the future global monetary system, it will do so on U.S. terms.

Incredible.