{"id":645882,"date":"2025-09-12T08:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=645882"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:33:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:03:41","slug":"indias-russian-crude-imports-rise-to-e2-9-bn-in-aug-close-to-chinas-e3-1-bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-russian-crude-imports-rise-to-e2-9-bn-in-aug-close-to-chinas-e3-1-bn\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Russian crude imports rise to \u20ac2.9 bn in Aug, close to China&#8217;s \u20ac3.1 bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India imported \u20ac2.9 billion of crude oil from Russia in August, nearly matching China&#8217;s \u20ac3.1 billion, according to the Helsinki-based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. India&#8217;s crude imports increased from \u20ac2.7 billion in July, while China&#8217;s fell from \u20ac4.1 billion. <\/p>\n<p>The US has been pressuring India to cut Russian oil purchases, arguing that they help finance Moscow&#8217;s war in Ukraine. Washington imposed a 25% additional tariff on a slew of Indian exports to the US from August 27 as a penalty for buying Russian oil, while taking no such measures against other buyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India imported \u20ac2.9 billion of crude oil from Russia in August, nearly matching China&#8217;s \u20ac3.1 billion, according to the Helsinki-based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. India&#8217;s crude imports increased from \u20ac2.7 billion in July, while China&#8217;s fell from \u20ac4.1 billion. The US has been pressuring India to cut Russian oil purchases, arguing that they help finance Moscow&#8217;s war in Ukraine. Washington imposed a 25% additional tariff on a slew of Indian exports to the US from August 27 as a penalty for buying Russian oil, while taking no such measures against other buyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645882","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}