Al -Shark al -Avasat newspaper -China stops buying liquefied gas from the United States

According to shipping data showing how the China -American trade war is expanding to fuel cooperation, China’s American LNG imports have stopped over 10 weeks.

On February 6, there have been no other goods between the two countries since the Corpus Christist, Texas, from 69,000 liquefied gas carrier to the Southern Province Fujian.

On February 10, the second tanker was re -directed to Bangladesh before imposing a 15 per cent customs duty on China’s American LNG. The tariff has increased to 49 percent since then, with American gas immunity to Chinese buyers in the future.

The freezing of American LNG is to repeat the ban on imports that lasted more than a year in the first period of President Donald Trump. But the impact of this friction may have long -term consequences, as it strengthens the relationship with China in the field of energy and raises questions about the enormous expansion of the billions of dollars worth in the United States and Mexico, according to the British newspaper.

At the World Energy Policy Center at the University of Columbia, Gas Specialist on Sophie Carbo said, “There are long -term consequences.” I don’t think Chinese LNG importers will capture American LNG’s new imports. ”

From the Russian war on Ukraine, China imported a low share of liquefied natural gas from the United States, as Chinese buyers prefer to sell gas to Europe for gain. Last year, only 6 percent of Chinese LNG came from the United States, which declined from 11 percent in 2021.

However, Chinese companies, including “Petrochina” and “Sinopk”, have signed 13 long -term contracts to buy liquefied natural gas from American stations, some of which extend up to 2049, according to “Kepler” data.

These long -term deals are required to launch heavy liquefied natural gas projects in the United States, although high inflation and developers have recently negotiated the situation to take into account the costs of US tariffs.

In Kepler, analyst Jilian Bokara said there was no reason to resume trade between the two countries in the short term. When it lasted the last time, Chinese authorities were in full stop until they were exempted by companies, but it was during the well -being of gas demand. “Now we are looking forward to less economic growth, and we believe that the Chinese can withstand these allegations for a long time.”

The Chinese ambassador in Russia said China would increase the imports of Russia LNG earlier this week. “I know that there are a lot of buyers,” said Zhang Hanavi. Most buyers ask the embassy to help establish contacts with Russian suppliers, and I think it will be more (from imports).

After Australia and Qatar, Russia became the third largest liquefied natural gas supplier for China; The two countries have also discussed a new gas pipeline called “Cyber ​​2 Power”. “As the level of customs rises to a level of duties, we will see the actual ban, we will look at the reorganization of commercial currents,” said Richard Bron, Energy Ascent in the field of energy. “We hope the Asian demand will decrease by 5-10 million tonnes. It will slow down gas prices in Europe.”