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Washington talks a cut in China’s US LNG tariff

People told Reuters the package could be unveiled when Donald Trump receives Xi Jinping in the US capital on 24 September. Beijing put the levy in place in February 2025. Official US data show cargoes of US LNG to China went from 64 ships in 2024 to effectively none in 2025. Neither the White House nor China’s mission in Washington offered comment.

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In a bright Washington receiving room, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping sit across a table in discussion, with US and Chinese flags behind them.

A date, unnamed people

People told Reuters the package could be unveiled when Donald Trump receives Xi Jinping in the US capital on 24 September. Neither the White House nor China’s mission in Washington offered comment. Bloomberg, FT and WSJ did not, in the bounded check, publish their own unnamed-source match of that date. The card stays on Reuters. A could is not a signed communiqué. The bounded search found no second newsroom; the card stays on this announcement.[1]

The 2025 tariff and the vessel count

China put the levy in place in February 2025. Official US data show cargoes of US LNG to China went from 64 ships in 2024 to effectively none in 2025. Those two facts are in the Reuters file. They do not, by themselves, prove that a cut on 24 September is agreed. The bounded search found no second newsroom; the card stays on this announcement.[1]

Exports still ran elsewhere

US LNG exports ran at 17.4 billion cubic feet daily through the first half of 2026, Reuters cited the Energy Information Administration. That is a global export rate, not a China-only flow. The unnamed people and the administration number live in one dispatch. Eigen Radar is not adding a second capital’s confirmation. The bounded search found no second newsroom; the card stays on this announcement.[1]

References

  1. News sourceReutersUS and China discuss cutting China's tariff on US LNG ahead of the 24 September meeting↩1↩2↩3