United States President Donald Trump has waived the application of “sanctions, restrictions, and duties” related to Russian energy exports under a law that he signed last month, saying it was in the “national interest” of America.
I have submitted to the Congress a certification that the issuance of such a waiver at this time is in the national interests of the United States,” Trump said in the executive order regarding the waiver, Bloomberg reported. This comes a week after the US President had, in a surprise move, said America had agreed to buy diesel from Russia in order to attempt to push down global energy prices, the Associated Press reported. The US President invoked the waiver clause under the law, championed by late Senator Lindsey O Graham as a way to bring punitive measures against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. “I am hereby waiving the application of such sanctions, restrictions, and duties provided for in the Graham Act.
