India Seeks Consensus Before Committing To Russian Oil Price Cap

OilPrice.com | Aug 24, 2022 at 12:30 PM
  • India, the world’s third-largest oil importer which has significantly boosted imports of Russian oil in recent months, is expected to tell U.S. officials this week that it could join a global coalition of setting a price cap on Russia’s oil only if there is a broad consensus on the issue, sources with knowledge of the situation told Bloomberg on Wednesday.
  • The U.S. and the G7 group of the world’s most industrialized nations are leading efforts to impose a price cap on Russian oil.
  • U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo is traveling to India this week, where he will discuss the price cap on Russian oil, among other things.