For purchase Russian oil. As soon as requests to G7 countries.
New pressure from the United States on Japan and soon also on the other G7 countries, to impose higher duties than China and India as punishment for their continuous oil purchases from Russia. This was anticipated by the Kyodo agency, which cites an official of the Usa Treasury Department, explaining that the new Trump Administration narrow “is part of the strategy to end as soon as possible to the conflict in Ukraine”. The Treasury spokesman said that the finance ministers of the main democracies will hold an online meeting on Friday to discuss Washington’s request.
“The purchases of Russian oil by China and India are financing the war machine of Russian President Vladimir Putin and prolonging the senseless massacre of the Ukrainian people”, said the official to the Kyodo agency, “our G7 partners must join us”. Last month, Trump doubled the duties on the assets imported from India, which is one of the main commercial partners of Russia together with China. Like the European Union, however, a higher imposition of duties on China and India by Japan appears difficult, say analysts, given its close economic ties with the two countries.
The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Tokyo at the end of August to meet his counterpart Shigeru Ishiba, with whom he agreed to intensify the cooperation on economics and safety. The war in Ukraine has led to a significant increase in liquefied natural gas exports (GNL) from the United States to Europe to compensate for the reduction of Russian supplies. Among the other initiatives under discussion between Washington and Tokyo, who leave the observers perplexed, support for an ambitious 44 billion dollars project for a gas pipeline that would connect the deposits in northern Alaska to a port in the South, allowing the liquefaction and export of US gas to Asian markets.
