Were confirmed information about, that the US Treasury issued a “private appeal” to the largest oil and gas traders about trading in Russian oil. At the US Treasury, as the authoritative in the West Financial Times writes, urged traders "not to be afraid of deals for the supply of Russian oil".
In the material, citing representatives of the Joe Biden administration, they write, that the US Treasury “does not prohibit trading in oil from Russia, is not going to impose sanctions for this.”.
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The Office emphasizes, that it monitors compliance with the price ceiling for Russian raw materials, but it does not prohibit trading and supplying it to buyers, because against it, so that the world market completely loses Russian oil. After that, American traders again began to actively trade in Russian oil, as the same publication writes, citing government officials in the United States. We are talking about, that the sale of oil from tankers is again carried out with their entry into foreign ports, instead of the overflow method (how it's been for months) in neutral waters.
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The United States is interested in reducing Russia's income from the sale of raw materials, but not interested in, so that there is a jump in prices on the world market due to a sharp reduction in the volume of oil supplies from the Russian Federation. Against this background, Russian grades of oil, as well as oil, showed a record increase in prices for several months. Besides, gas in Europe has risen in price by more than a day 18%.
Worth adding on this, that the day before, the head of the foreign policy department of Saudi Arabia flew to Moscow, whom Sergey Lavrov met. The Foreign Ministers discussed how the issue of a possible settlement in Ukraine, as well as issues of energy cooperation, including in the OPEC+ deal format. and Moscow, and Riyadh consider it right to continue to remain in the deal format, without increasing oil production.
