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More than meets the eye as China tops US as biggest crude importer

Tue, Aug 08, 2017 - 5:50 AM

Launceston, Australia

HOW impressed should you be by China overtaking the United States as the world's largest importer of crude? The answer is quite a bit, but maybe not as much as you thought.

China imported an average 8.55 million barrels per day (bpd) in the first half of 2017

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