TREE NEWS update: China’s foreign ministry pushed back on September 17 after the US Congress passed a bill authorizing President Donald Trump to impose tariffs on countries that buy Russian oil products. Spokesman Guo Jiakun said China conducts normal trade and economic cooperation on the basis of equality and mutual benefit, and that such cooperation targets no third party and is not subject to third-party interference or coercion. He said China consistently opposes long-arm jurisdiction without a basis in international law or UN Security Council authorization.
China Rejects US Bill Allowing Trump Tariffs on Russian Oil Buyers
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The bill's significance lies less in the tariffs themselves than in the precedent: US legislation that treats purchases of Russian crude as a sanctionable act, extending Washington's reach into third countries' energy procurement. For China, which frames such trade as bilateral and unrelated to any third party, the objection is jurisdictional, not commercial. The open question is whether the authorization is used, and how far secondary measures reach into oil flows that also feed global refining and RWA-linked commodity markets.
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