{"id":332572,"date":"2026-05-16T05:40:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-says-he-will-soon-make-a-decision-about-sanctions-on-chinese-companies-buying-iranian-oil.html"},"modified":"2026-05-16T05:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:40:48","slug":"trump-says-he-will-soon-make-a-decision-about-sanctions-on-chinese-companies-buying-iranian-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-says-he-will-soon-make-a-decision-about-sanctions-on-chinese-companies-buying-iranian-oil.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he will soon make a decision about sanctions on Chinese companies buying Iranian oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"MainContent\">\n<header class=\"ArticleHeader-articleHeader\" id=\"main-article-header\"><span>WATCH LIVE<\/span><\/header>\n<p><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>U.S. President <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Donald Trump<\/a> said Friday that he will make a decision over the next few days about lifting sanctions on Chinese oil companies that buy Iranian oil.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Washington looked to cut off revenue streams to Iran as part of a <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">&#8220;maximum pressure&#8221; campaign<\/a> imposed by Trump, weeks before the war with Iran began.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the U.S. <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">sanctioned<\/a> several independent refineries, known as &#8220;teapots,&#8221;  found importing Iranian oil, including one of China&#8217;s largest, Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian crude is usually transported to Chinese teapot refineries using a &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221; of tankers, which use deceptive tactics, such as disabling tracking systems and forging registration, to avoid detection. <\/p>\n<p>Many shipments involve multiple ship-to-ship transfers, sometimes using scrapped vessels that are no longer in operation, often in the\u00a0Persian Gulf or the Strait of Malacca, to\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">obscure<\/a>\u00a0their origins.<\/p>\n<p>Following the president&#8217;s visit to China, Trump was asked on Friday whether he would consider lifting the sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, we talked about that, and I&#8217;m going to make a decision over the next few days,&#8221; Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"InlineVideo-videoButton\"><\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/15\/trump-china-sanctions-iranian-oil.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH LIVE U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that he will make a decision over the next few days about lifting sanctions on Chinese oil companies that buy Iranian oil. Earlier this year, Washington looked to cut off revenue streams to Iran as part of a &#8220;maximum pressure&#8221; campaign imposed by Trump, weeks before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-332572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}