Without India’s shoulder to lean on: Russia left without oil orders for December Five of India’s largest refineries — which account for two-thirds of the country’s imports of Russian oil — have not placed a single order for December, Bloomberg reports. Normally, deals for the following month are finalized by the 10th, but this time there’s silence. The sudden shift came after Trump doubled tariffs on all Indian imports to 50% in August and imposed sanctions on Russia’s two biggest producers, Rosneft and Lukoil. According to Bloomberg, only two refiners — Indian Oil Corp. and Nayara Energy — purchased symbolic volumes of Russian crude.