{"id":28350,"date":"2026-02-03T05:34:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=28350"},"modified":"2026-02-03T05:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:55:25","slug":"trump-cuts-tariffs-18-india-will-halt-russian-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/02\/trump-cuts-tariffs-18-india-will-halt-russian-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump cuts tariffs 18%, India will halt Russian oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United States will cut tariffs on Indian goods to 18% under a new trade deal, and India agreed to stop buying Russian oil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters, the new trade deal was announced on Monday, Feb\u202f2, by President Donald Trump after a phone call between Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said India will buy more oil from the U.S. and possibly Venezuela, along with more American energy, farm and technology products, though no timeline was given for these changes.<\/p>\n<p>Modi welcomed the announcement, saying lower tariffs would strengthen trade ties and create new opportunities for Indian businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had raised tariffs on Indian imports to 50% last August to pressure New Delhi over its Russian oil purchases and said earlier this month the rate could rise further if imports continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States will cut tariffs on Indian goods to 18% under a new trade deal, and India agreed to stop buying Russian oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":28352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,976,193,194],"tags":[500,1458,1459,1460,192],"class_list":["post-28350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-politics","category-india","category-world","tag-united-states","tag-tariffs","tag-russian-oil","tag-venezuela","tag-india"],"views":35,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28355,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28350\/revisions\/28355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}