China to Resell First US LNG Cargo in a Year Instead of Importing It

Chinese buyers that received the first U.S.

LNG cargo in over a year plan to resell it on another market to profit from higher prices elsewhere and avoid paying a 25% tariff, sources familiar with the plans told Bloomberg on Monday.

The Yangpu port in south China earlier this month received a cargo of U.S.

LNG from the Plaquemines LNG export terminal operated by Venture Global in Louisiana’s Plaquemines Parish.

This was the first U.S. shipment of gas to China in more than a year.

But the gas was offloaded into bonded storage, without being…