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By Ryan Collins, Scarlet Fu, and Julia Chatterley

March 22, 2018 at 8:10 PM UTC

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March 22, 2018 at 11:46 PM UTC

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What would it take for China to reduce its trade gap with the U.S.? Buy more natural gas, for a start, says Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross.

Diverting its purchases from other countries to America would be the “simplest” solution, Ross said during an interview with Bloomberg TV after President Donald Trump ordered tariffs on at least $50 billion in Chinese imports. Buying more U.S. liquefied natural gas would be a step in that direction, he said.