India on Friday questioned “selective exemptions” from sanctions by the US on buying oil from Russian companies, while singling out India for penal tariffs and indicated that decisions like sanctions have to be taken by the world as a whole.

“Germany is asking for exemption from US sanctions on oil. The UK probably has already got an exemption on procuring oil (from sanctioned Russian companies). Why single out India?,” Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said in his intervention at the Berlin Global Dialogue.

The carve-out that the UK has got and what Germany is asking is for local subsidiaries of these Russian companies operating in their countries. Goyal also pointed out that Rosneft’s subsidiary in India has been sanctioned by the European Union.

While some countries get exemptions and

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