President Donald Trump has ordered a 25% tariff on imports from India in response to the country’s continued purchases of Russian oil — an aggressive move underscoring the administration’s expanding pressure campaign against Moscow’s backdoor enablers.
Trump signed the executive order Wednesday morning, invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the National Emergencies Act, and Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974. It builds on his March directive banning U.S. imports of Russian-origin crude and petroleum products, part of a broader strategy that frames Russia’s war on Ukraine as a “national emergency” threatening American security and foreign policy.
“To deal with the national emergency described in Executive Order 14066,” the new order reads, “I determine that it is necessary and appropriate to impose an additional ad valorem duty on imports of articles of India, which is directly or indirectly importing Russian Federation oil.”
The order also lays out a sprawling enforcement mechanism, tasking Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio with monitoring other nations that may be skirting sanctions.
“If the Secretary of Commerce finds that a country is directly or indirectly importing Russian Federation oil, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the United States Trade Representative, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and the Assistant to the President and Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing, shall recommend whether and to what extent I should take action as to that country, including whether I should impose an additional ad valorem rate of duty of 25 percent on imports of articles of that country,” the order says.
NEW: President Donald J. Trump just signed an Executive Order imposing an additional 25% tariff on India in response to its continued purchase of Russian oil.
Here is the text of the Order:
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the…
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Additionally, in the wake of the tariff announcement, Apple announced another $100B investiment in American manufacturing commitments.
The new investment includes funding to expand Apple’s capacity to produce key components for iPhones and other products in the U.S., according to Bloomberg, citing a White House official.
“President Trump’s America First economic agenda has secured trillions of dollars in investments that support American jobs and bolster American businesses,” said White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers.
“Today’s announcement with Apple is another win for our manufacturing industry that will simultaneously help reshore the production of critical components to protect America’s economic and national security,” Rogers added.
