if you look at how much more , if it isna has left to ratchet up the tit-for-tat tariffs, there isn'tariffs on u.s. crude, but at the same time, the refiners have been buying less and less u.s. crude. you have to ask yourself, how can china -- what steps can it take to give it the maximum leverage in the escalating trade war with the u.s.? iranian crude could be one of them. you've seen in the past few months, china has been helping iran. there have been lots of reports of crude coming into china, being imported into china in violation of u.s. sanctions. the crude coming and going into storage in china. it could presumably he made available to other asian refiners. flows could go up, it could be china's way of thumbing its nose at the u.s.. shery: wti has been hammered more than brent. is this because of the rising inventory piles and the u.s., and will the trend continue? the u.s.i think inventories have definitely come back to center stage, as far as the oil market is concerned. of the, more because consecutive, i think seven weeks of big decline. what you are seeing is in the past