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Inependent refiners in China are the main buyers of Iran&#8217;s oil exports.<br \/>The move comes less than two weeks before U.S. President Donald Trump is due to visit Beijing, highlighting China&#8217;s willingness to deploy its economic pressure tools despite a trade truce with Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has, for the first time, invoked a law targeting companies that comply with foreign sanctions it rejects, escalating a pushback against the U.S. blacklisting of several oil refineries over purchases of Iranian crude.On Saturday, the Ministry of Commerce ordered companies not to comply with U.S. sanctions against five refiners, including recently designated Hengli Petrochemical, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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