India Must Do More to Wind Down Russian Oil Buys, Greer Says

Jan. 27, 2026, 10:03 PM UTC

India has more work to do in order to satisfy US concerns about its purchases of Russian oil and secure tariff relief, President Donald Trump’s trade representative said.

While New Delhi has “made a lot of progress” on curbing buys of Russian crude, “it’s hard for them” to completely wean off the supplies because “they like the discount that you get from Russian oil,” US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Tuesday in a Fox Business interview.

“I am in frequent contact with my counterpart in India. I have a great working relationship with him, but they still have ...

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