S. Jaishankar on Trump’s Tariff in Moscow: During a meeting with his Russian colleague Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Thursday, August 21, 2025, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar responded to the punitive tariffs imposed by the United States on India for purchasing oil from Russia. India is “very surprised” to grasp this reasoning, he added.
According to Jaishankar, China is Russia’s largest oil consumer, not India. At the same time, the European Union is the largest LNG customer, not India. Aside from this, other southern nations have increased their trade with Russia, although India has not increased its trade with it much since 2022.
How come the US hasn’t put tariffs on China?
As of right now, the US has not banned China from purchasing Russian oil. The US Treasury Secretary defended it by claiming that India boosted its purchases from Russia after the war and profited from the sale of the oil.
India was taken aback by the US dispute
According to Jaishankar, the US has been urging India to support global energy market stabilization for a number of years, including by purchasing Russian oil. The amount of oil that India purchases from the US has also grown. India is taken aback by the US’s reasoning in this circumstance.
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