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United States President Donald Trump claims India will now buy Venezuelan oil after tussles<\/a> last year over the South Asian country\u2019s significant imports of Russian crude.<\/p>\n \u201cIndia is coming in, and they\u2019re going to be buying Venezuelan oil as opposed to buying it from Iran. So, we\u2019ve already made that deal, the concept of the deal,\u201d Trump told reporters on board Air Force One on Saturday.<\/p>\n Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n India has not been importing significant amounts of Iranian oil owing to US sanctions<\/a> that have squeezed exports, but turned to Russia for supplies after Western penalties over the Ukraine war drove down the cost of crude.<\/p>\n The US president, who has said his country intends to control Venezuela\u2019s oil sales and revenues indefinitely after abducting former leader Nicolas Maduro last month, had put pressure on India to stop buying Russian oil<\/a>.<\/p>\n Back in August, amid efforts to pressure Moscow to negotiate a peace deal in Ukraine, Trump had doubled tariffs on Indian exports to the US to 50 percent<\/a> to discourage New Delhi from buying Russian oil.<\/p>\n US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signalled in January that the additional 25 percent tariff on Indian goods could be removed, given what he called a sharp reduction in Indian imports of Russian oil.<\/p>\n