{"id":591489,"date":"2026-04-18T09:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/591489\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:50:09","slug":"us-extends-waiver-on-russian-oil-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/591489\/","title":{"rendered":"US extends waiver on Russian oil sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday extended its pause on sanctions<\/a> on Russian oil shipments to ease shortages from the Iran war, days after Secretary Scott Bessent ruled out such a move.<\/p>\n

The so-called general license<\/a> means U.S. sanctions will not apply for 30 days on deliveries of Russian oil that has been loaded on tankers as of Friday. It extended a similar<\/a> 30-day license issued in March for Russian oil that had been loaded by March 11. The extension underscores how the fallout from the Iran war has boosted Moscow\u2019s ability to profit<\/a> from its energy exports, which had been restrained since the invasion of Ukraine.<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Bessent ruled out extending the license. \u201cWe will not be renewing the general license on Russian oil, and we will not be renewing the general license on Iranian oil,\u201d he said. The administration did not immediately explain the reversal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday extended its pause on sanctions on Russian oil shipments…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[7589,232237,23,28,3321,793,801,228242,3,139727,3776,4666,21,19,22,20,25,24,964,800,965],"class_list":{"0":"post-591489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","9":"tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-energy-industry","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-iran-war","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-oil-and-gas-industry","18":"tag-sanctions-and-embargoes","19":"tag-scott-bessent","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-war-and-unrest","27":"tag-washington-news","28":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}