Russian oil with bone of disagreement. Trump announces the higher duties on India

US President Donald Trump announced the imposition of higher duties on goods from India due to the fact that this country buys crude oil from Russia. As he said, India buy a cheaper Russian raw material for their own needs, but they also sell it with profit and they do not care about the fate of the victims of the war in Ukraine.

“India not only buy huge amounts of Russian oil, but also later sell a significant part of it on the free market with a lot of profit. They don't care how many people in Ukraine die from the Russian war machine” – Trump wrote on his Truth Social social networking site.” For this reason I will significantly raise the duty paid by India to the United States, “he announced.

Trump has already announced that he would impose a “punishment” for buying oil and armament from Russia. Later he said that negotiations in this matter were ongoing, and Friday claimed that he “heard” that the Indian authorities gave up buying Russian raw material. A day later, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that there was no change.

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According to earlier announcements, the new American duties on goods from India are to be 25 percent since Thursday, but Trump's entry on Truth Social suggests that they will be higher. The US President announced that he would impose a “secondary duties” in the amount of 100 percent. for goods from countries buying oil and natural gas from Russia.

Since Russia, India's full -size invasion of Ukraine has become one of the greatest buyers of Russian oil. According to the Reuters agency, in 2025 they increased the import of this raw material by 1 percent. Compared to 2024 and bring an average of 1.75 million barrels a day. Russia became the main source of raw material for India, despite the fact that before the war there was only a fraction of deliveries to this country.

From Washington Oskar Górzyński (PAP)

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