The new 25 percent tariff, which will be added to the 25 percent tariff Trump announced last week, will take effect on Aug. 27 if India doesn’t stop buying Russian oil. Trump also threatened to impose similar penalties on other countries that buy Russian energy, as a way to pressure the Kremlin into ending the war with Ukraine.

India has slammed what it calls the West’s “hypocrisy” after new data revealed that EU have contributed 23 per cent of Russia’s fossil fuel export revenue since the Ukraine war began–nearly double India’s share of 13 per cent,