Trump Says China to Begin Process of Purchasing ‘American Energy’

China has stayed away from importing U.S. crude oil and has been reselling U.S. liquefied natural gas since early this year as Beijing’s high tariffs made the purchases unviable.


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The U.S. accounted for about 5% of China’s LNG imports and 2% of China’s crude oil imports last year, Chinese customs data showed.

(Reporting by Shubham Kalia in Bengaluru; Additional reporting by Chen Aizhu in Singapore; Editing by Tomasz Janowski and Christopher Cushing)

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