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US President Donald Trump said in an interview with the Fox News post after the summit in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin, that he does not take into account the increase of customs duties applied to China as a measure for the purchase of Russian oil, a measure that he has already imposed on India, but it would be for three weeks. Discussions on the negotiated settlement of the Ukraine war, reports Reuters, taken over by Agerpres.
The day before the Alaska summit, Trump again warned Russia that he is exposed to “very serious consequences” if he does not agree to conclude the war, threatening it with new direct sanctions and sanctions imposed on his commercial partners through secondary customs taxes on Russian oil imports.
But after the meeting with Putin, in the interview given to the Fox News, the US president estimated that the mere cessation of fire is no longer a viable way to stop the war and that a peace agreement is needed. Trump also said that, at least for the next 2-3 weeks, he no longer takes into account new sanctions against Russia. He will meet at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski on Monday and announced that “if everything goes well” in the discussion with it will then be scheduled with Putin.
Taxes for India but China gets a pasture
Last week, Donald Trump signed an executive order by which, to the 25% customs duties he has already imposed on India, he added another 25% for a series of US products from India, reasoning that this is a “response to continuous Russian oil” by India, which, according to Washington, offers Russia.
However, in addition to the oil bought by India in Russia at prices under international quotations, Trump is also dissatisfied with the Indian procurement of Russian armament, but ignoring that they are carried out by virtue of traditional relations in the military and Russia, as well as by the failure to negotiate a commercial agreement between the USA and India, after this, the American agricultural.
Tired of the customs taxes imposed by Trump, US allies are starting to hit the US President where it hurts louder
Before attacking India with these customs duties, Trump had threatened this country and China with such measures, which only for now imposed on India. He was asked on Friday at Fox News if he now considers to resort to such actions and against Beijing, after he and the Russian president failed at the Alaska summit to reach an agreement on the resolution of the Ukrainian conflict, although they both spoke after the Summit about progress.
“Well, taking into account what happened today, I think I don't have to think about it,” Trump said. “I may need to think about it once, in two or three weeks, but we don't have to think about it right now. I think, you know, the meeting (with Putin) has done very well,” said the US president, while Washington and Beijing continues negotiations on a commercial agreement after earlier this year, follow such an agreement will be concluded.
