Lindsey Graham, who, together with the Democrats Senator Richard Blmenthale, is the author of the Act on new sanctions for Russia, emphasized that As part of this solution, countries, buying goods from Russia and not supporting Ukraine, will be covered by 500 % duties on products exported by them to the United States.
Earlier, the senator announced that he would change the provisions of the Act to enable exceptions to penalties for countries providing help from Ukraine, which would exclude European countries still buying Russian oil and gas from his duties.
“India and China buy 70 percent of Putin's oil, maintaining the Russian war machine” – the senator pointed out. The act will allow Trump to impose duties on China and India, but also other countries to stop supporting the Russian war and make Russia proceed to talks – emphasized the politician.
“Yesterday, when we played golf, for the first time the president told me: it's time to start your act” Senator Graham said.
“So we will give President Trump a tool that is not today. After the July break, we will vote for the law,” he added. According to him, it is possible that Trump will sign it. At the same time, he noted that the president would decide whether and how to use it.
On June 18, the Semaphore portal said that the American Senate would deal with the Act on new sanctions for Russia and its trading partners at the earliest in July. The delay was associated with the situation in the Middle East and work on the budget act. At that time, the website wrote that the Senate had not yet received green light on sanctions against Russia from President Trump.
The congressmen of both parties in both chambers of the US Congress for a long time are pressing sanctions. The project obliges administration to impose sanctions on entities in the energy and banking sector of Russia, as well as duties of 500 percent. For goods from countries consciously buying oil and other raw materials from Russia.
Let's remind, until recently, “Wall Street Journal” wrote that President Trump pressed Graham to soften the wording of his bill. According to the journal, the president was afraid that sanctions would harm a reset of bilateral relations.
