(Reuters) -White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said India’s purchases of Russian crude were funding Moscow’s war in Ukraine and had to stop.

New Delhi was “now cozying up to both Russia and China,” Navarro wrote in an opinion piece published in the Financial Times on Monday.

“If India wants to be treated as a strategic partner of the U.S., it needs to start acting like one.”

India’s Foreign Ministry has previously said the country is being unfairly singled out for buying Russian oil while the United States and European Union continue to purchase goods from Russia.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced an additional 25% tariff on Indian goods earlier this month, citing New Delhi’s continued purchases of Russian oil. The move will take total tariffs on imports from India to 50%.

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