US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Russia had lost the “oil client” in India when he asked whether “there was an economic aspect” for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who agrees to organize a meeting on Alaska.
In an interview with Fox News, Trump asked, “Would you feel that Putin might come to this table in an economic pinch? Perhaps the things you have already done have been in the economic playground. Is there an economic aspect because Russia hopes to open?”
Trump replied by saying, “Well, he (Putin) lost the oil client to say, which is India that made about 40% oil.”
“China, as you know, does a lot (oil trade with Russia) …” he said.
Trump had previously threatened sanctions against Moscow and secondary sanctions on countries that buy its oil unless there are any steps to end the war in Ukraine. China and India are the two best buyers of Russian oil.
Secondary tariffs on countries buying oil from Russia?
Donald Trump said on Friday that he may not immediately consider retaliation on countries like China, for buying Russian oil, but may have to “two or three weeks”.
“… If I did what was called secondary sanctions or secondary tariff, it would be, you know, very devastating from their point of view. If I have to do it, I will do it. I may not have to do it,” Trump said.
Trump’s comments came before his meeting with Putin on Alaska on Friday. Both leaders organized three at three meetings on Friday to discuss the war of Ukraine.
After the summit, Trump was asked whether he was now considering such an action against Beijing after he and Putin could not conclude an agreement to resolve or suspend the Moscow War in Ukraine.
He said, “Well, because of what happened today, I think I don’t have to think about it,” Trump said after his peak with Putin in Alaska.
“Maybe I will have to think about it in two weeks or three weeks or something, but now we don’t have to think about it. I think you know, the meeting went very well.”
Trump’s threat
At the beginning of this month, Trump threatened Russian energy buyers with other tariffs as a means to pressure Putin into peace interviews with Ukraine. The US President has already doubled Indian products to 50 percent from August 27 when buying oil from Moscow.
However, the increase in tariffs to China would risk violations of the trade ceasefire that Trump agreed on Monday to extend the next 90 days. This agreement recorded Washington and Beijing lower duties for the goods of others that achieved astronomical levels in the spring that scared global markets.
China advocated its imports of Russian oil as legal and necessary for energy security.
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