The coal industry and the state of West Virginia have plenty to sell to China if the country wants to increase US imports to help reduce US trade deficits with China. Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg Tuesday reported that Chinese officials are currently looking at boosting purchases of coal, especially from West Virginia. Bill Raney, president of the West Virginia Coal Association, agreed with Sun that there is ample capacity to ramp up exports. "West Virginia exports more coal than any other state and currently accounts for about half the coal exported from the US," Raney said in an email. "Coal exports in the US are surging in part because China has been shutting down its less efficient coal mines," Marc Scribner, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told Fox Business in March.