Commodities News
August 3, 2018 / 9:35 AM / 2 days ago
UPDATE 2-China's Unipec suspends U.S. oil imports as trade spat intensifies
Reuters Staff
4 Min Read
* Not clear how long temporary halt will last
* No new orders of U.S. oil until October -source
* Unipec had earlier said would take 300,000 bpd this year (Adds details)
By Florence Tan and Josephine Mason
SINGAPORE/BEIJING, Aug 3 (Reuters) - China’s Unipec, the trading arm of state oil major Sinopec, has suspended crude oil imports from the United States due to a growing trade spat between Washington and Beijing, three sources familiar with the situation said on Friday.
af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL4N1UU2UC
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Business News
August 4, 2018 / 7:42 AM / Updated 12 hours ago
China won't accept U.S. trade 'blackmail': state media
Reuters Staff
4 Min Read
BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China’s state media said on Saturday the government’s retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. goods showed rational restraint and they accused the United States of blackmail.
www.reuters.com/article/...lackmail-state-media-idUSKBN1KP04W
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