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LNG companies say they cannot comply with Trump rules on Chinese ships

Industry says administration’s levies on foreign vessels will harm US plans for ‘energy dominance’

The liquefied natural gas industry has warned the Trump administration it cannot comply with new rules aimed at forcing them to use US transport vessels by imposing levies on Chinese-built ships docking at US ports.

It warns the rules published by US trade representative Jamieson Greer on April 17 could damage a $34bn a year export industry that is central to the president’s “energy dominance” agenda, according to lobbying letters sent by the American Petroleum Institute to the administration this week.

The new rules are part of US efforts to increase the pressure on China over what Washington argues are unfair trade practices, while boosting the domestic manufacturing of ships.

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