Trump presses the European Union to impose a 100 % tariff on India and China to pressure Putin

US President Donald Trump asked the European Union to strike China and India with 100 % definitions of oil purchases in countries, in a move aimed at increasing heat on Moscow to end the war in Ukraine.

The proposal, which was first reported Financial timesIt was confirmed to CNBC’s Megan Cassanla By two sources familiar with this issue.

Trump submitted the request when he was called in a meeting with senior US and European Union officials in Washington, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the discussion. The report said that Washington was also ready for “raising”, that is, a tariff imposed by Europe on the two countries.

The White House did not immediately respond to CNBC’s comments.

The United States imposed a 25 % punitive tariff on imports from India due to New Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil, with total duties to 50 %. India said the definitions are “unfair and unreasonable,” while the United States and the European Union trade with Russia.

The bilateral trade of the European Union with Russia amounted to 67.5 billion euros ($ 78.1 billion) in 2024, while the trade trade in 2023 was 17.2 billion euros, according to L. European Commission data.

Data from the Indian embassy in Moscow The bilateral trade between New India and Russia showed a record number of 68.7 billion dollars for the year ending in March 2025, approximately 5.8 times of prehistoric trade of $ 10.1 billion.

China, The largest buyer of Russian oilSo far, it has been saved from the “secondary” definitions, after securing a truce with Washington to reduce the new fees on its products to 30 %.

Trump’s proposal comes at a time when his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska did not lead to a little progress towards securing the ceasefire in Ukraine. After the meeting, Putin told the correspondents at a joint press conference with Trump that the “root causes” of the conflict needs to address sustainable peace.

“There were many points that we agreed to … I would like to say two of the large points that we did not get there, but we have made some progress,” Trump said after Putin’s comments Last month, without clarification.

While Washington’s pursuit of a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, Putin seems to have strengthened his relations with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during their meeting with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Beijing last week.

In a post in X on Tuesday in the United States, Trump said that the United States and India have resumed commercial negotiations to handle commercial barriers. The president described as a “very good friend”, the president said he was “sure that there will be no difficulty in reaching a successful result.”

Washington’s negotiations with China seem to be struggling to reach a penetration, with a visit in late August to Washington by the Great Chinese Trade negotiator Lee Chenggang, not little progress.