China Halts U.S. LNG Imports Amid Tariff War

China hasn’t imported liquefied natural gas from the United States since early February, as the tariff war hit energy trade and could have long-term consequences for U.S. LNG export contracts. The last LNG cargo to arrive in China from America was a tanker from Corpus Christi, which docked in the southern Chinese province of Fujian on February 6, according to shipping data cited by the Financial Times. The Chinese tariffs on U.S. goods, including energy products, and the broader trade war between the world’s two biggest economies could…