**China may offer US sanctions compliance for trade concessions **Chinese imports of Iranian crude up 6% from 2017 **Domestic banks, barter system may be used to evade sanctions China, Iran’s top oil consumer, will likely attempt to evade sanctions that the US has promised to reimpose in November, but ongoing trade disputes and sensitive diplomatic talks could motivate Beijing into limited compliance, analysts told S&P Global Platts this week. “I do think the Chinese are going to evade US sanctions and even just ignore some of them,” said Richard Nephew, a principal deputy coordinator for sanctions policy at the State Department during the Obama administration. “But, depending on how North Korea and other trade issues are going, they may (I must emphasize, may) throw a few bones to the Trump Administration by reducing a bit of their purchases, cooperating on this or that evasion case, etc.” Another former State […]