{"id":17065,"date":"2026-05-18T04:27:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=17065"},"modified":"2026-05-18T04:27:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:27:50","slug":"us-waiver-on-russian-oil-purchases-expires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/17065\/","title":{"rendered":"US Waiver on Russian Oil Purchases Expires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0The Trump administration allowed a sanctions waiver that had enabled countries, including India, to buy Russian seaborne crude to expire.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"3\"><span data-reader-unique-id=\"4\">According to Reuters, the waiver, which had been extended in April for one month to ease supply shortages after Iran\u2019s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, was not renewed by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"5\"><span data-reader-unique-id=\"6\">The temporary extension had been part of broader measures to contain soaring energy prices during the Iran war, including withdrawals from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a waiver of the Jones Act shipping rule, and President Donald Trump\u2019s call to suspend the federal gasoline tax.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"7\"><span data-reader-unique-id=\"8\">Despite these steps, US gasoline prices remain near $4.50 per gallon, the highest since 2022, while global crude benchmarks have stayed above $100 per barrel since late February. Trump also said he had discussed with Chinese President Xi Jinping the possibility of lifting sanctions on Chinese firms buying Iranian oil, with a decision expected soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"9\"><span data-reader-unique-id=\"10\">India, the largest consumer of Russian seaborne crude, has maintained near\u2011record purchases in April and May under earlier waivers, highlighting the global market\u2019s reliance on US concessions.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" datetime=\"2026-05-18T04:27:50+00:00\"> 18 May 2026<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration allowed a sanctions waiver that had enabled countries, including India, to buy Russian seaborne crude to expire.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36,19,16,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-17065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-international","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17065"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=17065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}