{"id":352,"date":"2025-08-02T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ranjantechnologies.com\/newspaper\/?p=352"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:59:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:59:49","slug":"india-ramps-up-us-energy-imports-as-trump-pushes-balanced-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ranjantechnologies.com\/newspaper\/india-ramps-up-us-energy-imports-as-trump-pushes-balanced-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"India ramps up US energy imports as Trump pushes balanced trade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Washington:&nbsp;<\/strong>India has dramatically increased its energy purchases from the US since Donald Trump returned to office in January, with crude oil imports surging 51% in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period last year, according to data cited by people aware of the trade specifics between the two nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The energy buying spree reflects New Delhi\u2019s commitment to rebalance trade ties with Washington, a key demand of the Trump administration. Liquefied natural gas imports have nearly doubled from $1.41 billion in FY2023-24 to $2.46 billion in FY2024-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The surge follows a February agreement between Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington, where both leaders committed to expanding energy cooperation. India pledged to boost American energy imports to $25 billion from $15 billion in 2024, while bilateral trade is targeted to more than double from $200 billion to $500 billion by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe leaders reaffirmed their commitment to increase energy trade, as part of efforts to ensure energy security, and to establish the United States as a leading supplier of crude oil and petroleum products and liquefied natural gas to India,\u201d the joint statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/india-ramps-up-us-energy-imports-as-trump-pushes-balanced-trade-101754148441266.html\">Hindustan Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington:&nbsp;India has dramatically increased its energy purchases from the US since Donald Trump returned to office in January, with crude oil imports surging 51% in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period last year, according to data cited by people aware of the trade specifics between the two nations. The energy buying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-national","th-blog blog-single has-post-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ranjantechnologies.com\/newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ranjantechnologies.com\/newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ranjantechnologies.com\/newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ranjantechnologies.com\/newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ranjantechnologies.com\/newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ranjantechnologies.com\/newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/ranjantechnologies.com\/newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ranjantechnologies.com\/newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ranjantechnologies.com\/newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ranjantechnologies.com\/newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ranjantechnologies.com\/newspaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}