Washington (dpa-AFX)-US President Donald Trump is able to impose further Russia sanctions. When asked by a journalist at the White House, whether he was ready to enter the second phase of sanctions against Moscow, he said briefly and briefly: “Yes, that’s me.” The Republican did not provide more information. It remained unclear whether new sanctions are actually imposed and if so, when.
Trump had indicated days ago that in addition to the customs sentence that the United States recently introduced against India due to business with Russia, there were further plans – a “phase 2” and “phase 3”. He did not go into more detail.
The United States sees sanctions as a means to go to Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin To exercise pressure and thus to get a peace solution in the Ukraine War. So far, Trump’s diplomatic efforts in this regard have remained unsuccessful. Putin was recently accused of delaying a direct meeting with the Ukrainian head of state Wolodymyr Selenskyj.
Customs against India because of Kremlin transactions
Trump had threatened tariffs against Russia’s trading partners of around 100 percent in mid -July. But these did not come to this extent at least: The United States has been raising additional tariffs of 25 percent on Indian products since last week because of its oil transactions with Russia. So far, India has been the only trading partner of Russia, against which the United States deals with tariffs in the context of the Ukraine war ./rin/dp/mis