While China can’t avoid paying higher prices for imported crude, as a net exporter of refined petroleum products it can turn to trade barriers to shield itself from the soaring mark-up on these products. Its new ban on fuel exports seeks to achieve just that and is already helping to limit the rise in domestic prices relative to global ones.
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