India buys about 90 per cent of its crude oil from overseas and has been the biggest market for Russian seaborne crude since 2023, according to ship tracking data compiled by Kpler. India imports about 5mn barrels of oil a day, of which 2mn come from Russia.

India’s government is scrambling to contain the economic fallout from President Trump’s threatened tariff action.

US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose higher tariffs on India very soon because the country does business with Russia. "We settled on 25% but I think I'm going to raise that very substantially over the next 24 hours,