{"id":273190,"date":"2019-05-06T11:34:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T11:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=273190"},"modified":"2019-05-06T11:34:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T11:34:58","slug":"us-govt-cannot-ensure-cheaper-oil-to-india-says-us-commerce-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-govt-cannot-ensure-cheaper-oil-to-india-says-us-commerce-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"US Govt cannot ensure cheaper oil to India, says US commerce secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US government will not ensure sale of its oil to India at cheaper rates as the commodity is controlled by private companies, US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Ross is in India to participate in a trade forum.<\/p>\n<p>The latest US sanctions against Iran has barred Asian buyers, including India, from importing oil from Tehran. Iran was shipping oil to India at discounted rates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOil is owned by private people so the government cannot force people to make concessionary prices,\u201d Ross said, when asked if the United States is considering selling oil to India at a concessional rates to make for loss of Iranian barrels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government will not ensure sale of its oil to India at cheaper rates as the commodity is controlled by private companies, US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross said on Monday. Ross is in India to participate in a trade forum. The latest US sanctions against Iran has barred Asian buyers, including India, from importing oil from Tehran. Iran was shipping oil to India at discounted rates. \u201cOil is owned by private people so the government cannot force people to make concessionary prices,\u201d Ross said, when asked if the United States is considering selling oil to India at a concessional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}