President Donald Trump has ordered a 25% tariff on imports from India over the South Asian country’s Russian oil purchases.
He signed an executive order Wednesday morning.
The order invokes the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the National Emergencies Act, and Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974. It builds on a March order from Trump that banned U.S. imports of Russian-origin crude oil, petroleum, and related products.
Trump declared Russia’s aggression against Ukraine a “national emergency,” citing its threat to U.S. national security and foreign policy interests.
“To deal with the national emergency described in Executive Order 14066, I determine that it is necessary and appropriate to impose an additional ad valorem duty on imports of articles of India, which is directly or indirectly importing Russian Federation oil,” Wednesday’s order says.
The order also creates a mechanism for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to monitor other potential violators.
“If the Secretary of Commerce finds that a country is directly or indirectly importing Russian Federation oil, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the United States Trade Representative, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and the Assistant to the President and Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing, shall recommend whether and to what extent I should take action as to that country, including whether I should impose an additional ad valorem rate of duty of 25 percent on imports of articles of that country,” the order says.
President Trump’s Rapid Response team shared the executive order in its entirety in a post on X.
NEW: President Donald J. Trump just signed an Executive Order imposing an additional 25% tariff on India in response to its continued purchase of Russian oil.
Here is the text of the Order:
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the…
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