India, Aug. 18 -- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that there are "implications" of sanctioning countries like China for continuing to buy oil from Russia.

His remarks made on Sunday come in the backdrop of the US imposing 50 per cent tariffs on India's exports to the US. It includes a 25 per cent penalty tariffs for New Delhi's trade with Moscow.

"If you put secondary sanctions on a country - let's say you were to go after the oil sales of Russian oil to China. Well, China just refines that oil. That oil is then sold into the global marketplace, and anyone who's buying that oil would be paying more for it or, if it doesn't exist, would have to find an alternative source for it," Rubio said in an interview to Fox News.

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