U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to keep 'massive' tariffs on India until it stops buying Russian oil, claiming Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised to halt such imports amid U.S. pressure.
00:00Welcome back. United States President Donald Trump warns that India will continue to face heavy tariffs if it fails to end its imports of Russian oil.
00:11Trump insists that he has spoken with Prime Minister Nandanda Modi on halting Russian oil imports, despite India's assertion that it was not aware of such conversation.
00:20I spoke with Prime Minister Modi of India, and he said he's not going to be doing the Russian oil thing, so that's it.
00:32Well, why would India say that they're not going to do that?
00:35I don't know, but if they want to say that, then they'll just continue to pay massive tariffs, and they don't want to do that.
00:41Russian oil remains a major sticking point in U.S.-India trade relations, with Trump imposing a 50 percent tariffs on Indian goods for its continued purchases of Russian petroleum.
00:53Last week, a White House official claimed that India had already halved its Russian oil purchases, but Indian sources have disputed that, saying there is no immediate sign of a reduction.
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