Secondary prices on Russian business partners coming in the midst of an uncertain future

President Donald Trump is preparing to announce new secondary rates on Friday on the nations that are business with Russia in the midst of his deadly war in Ukraine.

The White House remained close to what these prices looks like after the president said in July for the first time they were equivalent to prices “100%” before confusing earlier this week when he told journalists that he “had never said a percentage”.

Although the details of the tax rates of the nations that are negotiated with Russia can be confronted, the change of posture of Trump towards Russian President Vladimir Putin has become more and more obvious.

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“Trump is frustrated that the Russians did not benefit from his patience and his generous offers, but it is very interesting that even after Trump announced that he was moving submarines, and even after announcing the difficult rates, the Russians still wanted to speak to him,” said Fred Fleitz, who was assistant to Fox News to Truss and President’s first term, said Fox News Digital.

“Putin doesn’t want to irritate Trump,” he added. “Putin has never been worried about getting angry, and I think it shows a degree of respect.

“This shows what Trump has achieved by exerting leadership on the world scene. And we will see what will happen,” said Fleitz, adding that he hoped that it was not just a Putin scoring tactic.

Trump’s return to the White House brought a feeling of shock when he seemed to keep Washington away from his main allies in Europe in favor of the attempt to improve diplomatic relations with Putin, leading to the famous confrontation of the oval office with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in February.

While the fight has provided renewed support from its Maga base, which prefers the end of participation in the United States in foreign wars, it has caused concern among security experts. In the end, Trump’s patience with Putin began to move, the president constantly expressing his frustration in the face of the continuous brutal attacks of the Kremlin chief in Ukraine.

In mid-July, when he was sitting next to the secretary general of NATO, Mark Rutte, Trump announced that Putin had 50 days to conclude a ceasefire or “very severe” rates that would affect the best product in Moscow, oil.

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“Prices at around 100%, you would call them secondary prices,” he said, indicating that nations that are negotiated with Russia will see 100%prices

This would affect China and India the most, according to Data published by the US government Thursday, which showed that the two nations represent 46% of all Russian oil purchases in 2025.

But the United States is also the No. 1 export market for China and India, which means that the higher price labels on the body line on their products will make Americans think twice before completing these purchases.

After the trade negotiations in progress with the two nations and continuous war efforts of Putin in Ukraine, Trump postponed his deadline last week within 10 days of July 29, forcing a new deadline on Friday.

But while his promised rates were greeted by some in the GOP, including Senator Lindsey Graham, Rs.C. – He, with Senator Richard Blumenthal, Dn.Y., pushes the accusation of 500% sanctions against Russia – other Republican members did not support this decision.

Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., Was frank not only against Trump’s prices, but the bipartite sanction pushes and pleaded at Larry Kudlow of Fox Business this week that Trump prices on allies and enemies will represent $ 2 billion in the American consumer.

But Flitz rejected this argument and said that he was not convinced that prices will harm the American or Chinese economy, although Russia and India are likely to feel the pain.

“I think they will harm Russian and Indian savings,” he said, noting that India could recover by buying oil elsewhere. Although some reports have suggested that India could have saved more than $ 30 billion By turning more and more towards Russian oil during the period 2022-2024 due to Moscow price reductions.

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“It will be another factor that will put Putin pressure to accept a ceasefire. I don’t know if it will happen immediately or in a few months, but I think it will exert real pressure, inflict real pain on Russia,” said Fleitz.

Formerly an ally of Trump, the representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA., taken at X This week, in response to a Trump position, that he would apply prices on India for buying Russian oil and said: “End the H1-B Indian visas to replace American jobs instead and stop funding and send weapons to the Russian War Obama / Biden / Neocon.”

Trump’s favorable transition to Ukraine and European allies Drunted a few Maga feathersAlthough security experts argued that he gave the president a better lever effect to assume major opponents like Putin and, by extension, China.

President Donald Trump, on the right, and Mark Rutte, NATO secretary general, serve his hand during a meeting at the Oval Blanche office in Washington, DC, on July 14, 2025. (Yuri Gripas / Abaca / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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“Diplomacy and negotiations are a good thing,” said Fleitz, who is vice-president of the American Security Center for America First Policy Institute. “The restoration of peace takes time and the American-Russian relationship was in a very bad situation when Trump came to power.

“I think these sanctions will harm Russia very badly,” continued Fleitz. “The fact that Trump knows that secondary sanctions against India have, at least temporarily, injured our relationship is really a remarkable sign of the way Trump is engaged in these sanctions.

“There will be no exceptions. It will not be a type of gentle strategy with all kinds of loopholes,” he added. “I think it shows Putin how serious Trump is, and it gives Trump Levier to negotiate with Putin.”