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US Ethane Exports to China Hit New Roadblock with Licence Requirement

Business & Policy
May 30, 2025

Illustration picture of U.S. and China flags — China and U.S. flags are displayed alongside a miniature worker in this illustration picture taken November 7, 2024. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration

Summary

Two VLGCs wait to load ethane for China -Kpler, LSEG
13 tankers due to load ethane for China in June -Kpler
Enterprise warns ethane, butane exports to China could fall

(Reuters) – Chinese purchases of U.S. ethane, a key petrochemical feedstock, face fresh uncertainty after the Commerce Department told exporters to seek licences to export to China, according to trade sources and shipping data.

Washington ordered a broad swathe of companies to stop shipping goods, including ethane and butane, to China without a licence and revoked licences already granted to some suppliers, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

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