Vladimir Putin warns Trump tariffs on India, China could fall back on the US economy; Here's why

Russian President Vladimir Putin has criticized US President Donald Trump’s efforts to have India and China to break their energy ties with Russia, saying that the US tariffs on Moscow’s trading partners could flow back on October 2, 2025. and force the US Federal Reserve to keep its most important measures high. Depending on the state of the labor market and the level of inflation in the economy, any movement through the central bank can have a significant economic impact on the US. The news release also mentioned that Putin told a forum of Russian experts in Sochi, Russia, on Thursday that if the US Fed keeps the interest rates high, it would delay the US economy. According to a separate report of the news agency, India is the third largest importer of oil and the largest buyer of the Russian crude oil in Seaborne. The nation imported 1.73 million barrels per day (BPD) from Russia from Russia between January and July 2025. China also imports 21.5% of its crude oil needs from Russia, showed economist -intelligence data. US interest rates The FOMC of the US Federal Reserve has decided to reduce its most important interest rate by 25 basis points to its current level from 4.00% to 4.25%, as the central bank aims to assess more data to determine whether rates can be cut further. “The committee decided to lower the target range for the federal fund rate by 1/4 percentage point to 4 to 4-1/4 percent,” the US FOMC said in its announcement on Wednesday, September 17, 2025. But Fed chairman Jerome Powell in his first speech on the US economic outlook, as the interest rate in September 2025 emphasized the Fom US interest rate inflated. economy. “If we facilitate too aggressively, we can leave the inflation track incomplete and later reverses the course to fully recover 2% inflation,” Powell said in his speech. Trump tariffs on India, US President Donald Trump, imposed a 50% tariff on all imports from India, in addition to the 10% baseline tariffs on all goods imported to the US amid the ongoing trade war with other countries. Trump imposed his rates on India in two tranches, with the first 25% coming into effect on August 1, 2025, and the second round of 25% additional rates imposed by an executive order, which came into effect from 27 August 2025. After a fierce tariff exchange with China after the initial reciprocal tariff announcement, Trump introduced a total of 55% imports on all Chinese goods in the United States. According to a recent Reuters report, US trade representative Jamieson Greer said the 55% tariff on China is a ‘good status quo’, but Donald Trump’s administration is still looking for areas where bilateral trade can become freer.