{"id":355518,"date":"2025-08-06T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=355518"},"modified":"2025-08-06T13:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:12:55","slug":"dont-know-anything-about-us-imports-from-russia-has-trump-fallen-into-his-own-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/dont-know-anything-about-us-imports-from-russia-has-trump-fallen-into-his-own-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Don\u2019t know anything about US imports from Russia,\u2019 has Trump fallen into his own trap?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MEA\u2019s statement indicates India’s change in tack to tackle Trump’s threats\u2014US tariffs, sanctions over Russian oil <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he \u201cdoesn’t know anything\u201d about America importing fertilisers and chemicals from Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was responding to India’s accusation of \u201cdouble standards\u201d over Washington’s criticism of New Delhi’s Russian oil trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The remarks came during a press conference at the White House when he was asked about India’s statement on the US buying Russian uranium and fertilisers while criticising them for buying Russian energy. \u201cI don\u2019t know anything about it. We will have to check,\u201d he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) hit back after Trump threatened to \u201csubstantially raise\u201d the tariffs on Indian exports to the US over New Delhi\u2019s purchases of Russian oil. The MEA said the targeting of India is unjustified and unreasonable and questioned Washington and the European Union for their duplicity in their stance.  India\u2019s oil imports are guided by national interests and energy security considerations, the MEA said, rejecting \u201cunjustified and unreasonable\u201d pressure from Western powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia also on Tuesday stated that such threats against Moscow are illegal. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters \u201ctrying to force countries to stop trading with Russia is illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analysts say MEA\u2019s latest statement indicates a change in tack to face US tariffs, sanctions over Russian oil. Measures that New Delhi may consider are trade agreements with ASEAN and others, restarting oil imports from Iran and Venezuela<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump claimed that India has been buying \u201cmassive amounts\u201d of Russian oil and selling it on the open market for \u201cbig profits\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cClearly India has done being patient and tolerant, as far as Trump is concerned. India not only exposed the West\u2019s double-standards, but also conveyed its desire to pursue an independent foreign police, basically telling India that it is not not bothered by tariffs and threats,\u201d they add.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MEA\u2019s statement indicates India’s change in tack to tackle Trump’s threats\u2014US tariffs, sanctions over Russian oil  US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he \u201cdoesn’t know anything\u201d about America importing fertilisers and chemicals from Russia. He was responding to India’s accusation of \u201cdouble standards\u201d over Washington’s criticism of New Delhi’s Russian oil trade. The remarks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":354614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15084,36,1801],"tags":[18841,16742,19929,19170,19726],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355520,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355518\/revisions\/355520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/354614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}