Japan, US near deal on Iran oil import cuts
China Daily | Updated: 2012-02-22 08:20
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Members of the media wearing protective suits and masks report as they are escorted by Tokyo Electric Power Co employees at TEPCO's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, on Monday. Issei Kato / Agence France-Presse |
TOKYO - Japan is close to agreement with Washington on the size of cuts refiners must make in imports of Iranian crude oil to win waivers from US sanctions, two ministers said on Tuesday after a media report the two sides would settle on an 11 percent cut.
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