{"id":658518,"date":"2026-02-09T11:13:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658518"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:13:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:43:55","slug":"india-us-trade-deal-will-refiners-cut-back-on-russian-oil-imports-and-pause-new-orders-heres-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-us-trade-deal-will-refiners-cut-back-on-russian-oil-imports-and-pause-new-orders-heres-what-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"India-US trade deal: Will refiners cut back on Russian oil imports and pause new orders? Here&#8217;s what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian refiners are likely to start cutting back on Russian crude oil imports once they fulfil current purchase orders, in order to align with the joint India-United States interim trade agreement announced last week, PTI reported on Sunday, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump announced that he would reduce reciprocal tariffs on India from 25% to 18% and remove the additional 25% \u201cpunishment\u201d tariff imposed for buying Russian oil, based on India&#8217;s commitment to stop buying the barrels. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian refiners are likely to start cutting back on Russian crude oil imports once they fulfil current purchase orders, in order to align with the joint India-United States interim trade agreement announced last week, PTI reported on Sunday, citing sources. US President Donald Trump announced that he would reduce reciprocal tariffs on India from 25% to 18% and remove the additional 25% \u201cpunishment\u201d tariff imposed for buying Russian oil, based on India&#8217;s commitment to stop buying the barrels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658518","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}