{"id":73221,"date":"2025-08-02T21:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/02\/india-buy-oil-russia-despite-trump-tariff-threats"},"modified":"2025-08-02T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:48:08","slug":"india-to-still-buy-oil-from-russia-despite-trump-threats-say-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73221","title":{"rendered":"India to still buy oil from Russia despite Trump threats, say officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No pause on Russian imports by Indian oil firms who base decisions on \u2018price, grade of crude, logistics and economic factors\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Indian oil refineries will continue to buy oil from Russia, officials have said, before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/30\/trump-imposes-tariff-on-india-plus-penalty-over-ties-to-russia\">threatened US sanctions<\/a> next week against Moscow\u2019s trading partners over the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports on Friday had suggested India, a big energy importer, would stop buying cheap Russian oil. Trump later told reporters that such a move would be \u201ca good step\u201d if true.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/02\/india-buy-oil-russia-despite-trump-tariff-threats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No pause on Russian imports by Indian oil firms who base decisions on \u2018price, grade of crude, logistics and economic factors\u2019Indian oil refineries will continue to buy oil from Russia, officials have said, before threatened US sanctions next week again&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4879,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,666,415,62,557,449,419,61,3280,554,3279,930,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-commodities","category-donald-trump","category-india","category-international-trade","category-oil","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-tariffs","category-trump-administration","category-trump-tariffs","category-ukraine","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73222,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73221\/revisions\/73222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}