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25%  
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  • India's biggest refiner buys US, Middle East crude as Trump slams Russia purchases

    08/04/2025 8:54:26 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 5 replies
    Reuters ^ | 8/4/2025 | Florence Tan, Siyi Liu in Singapore and Nidhi Verma in New Delhi
    Indian Oil Corp (IOC.NS), opens new tab has bought 7 million barrels of crude from the United States, Canada and the Middle East, four trade sources said on Monday, as U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up his criticism of the country over its purchases of Russian oil. India is the biggest buyer of seaborne crude from Russia, which is under Western-led sanctions over its war in Ukraine. Its main refiners paused buying Russian oil last week as discounts to other suppliers narrowed after Trump threatened hefty tariffs on imports from countries that make any such purchases, Reuters reported last week....
  • India's oil deals with Russia dent decades-old dollar dominance

    03/08/2023 9:45:19 AM PST · by Navy Patriot · 31 replies
    Reuters ^ | March 7, 2023 | Nidhi Verma and Noah Browning
    U.S.-led international sanctions on Russia have begun to erode the dollar's decades-old dominance of international oil trade as most deals with India - Russia's top outlet for seaborne crude - have been settled in other currencies....India's oil trade, in response to the turmoil of sanctions and the Ukraine war, provides the strongest evidence so far of a shift into other currencies that could prove lasting.The country is the world's number three importer of oil and Russia became its leading supplier after Europe shunned Moscow's supplies following its invasion of Ukraine begun in February last year.