India, Aug. 14 -- US President Donald Trump has said that the additional tariffs imposed on India might have influenced his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to meet him. "Everything has an impact," he told Fox News Radio.

Last week, Trump imposed an additional 25 per cent tariff on India's already existing 25 per cent levy, taking it to a total of 50 per cent tariff on Indian goods. He cited New Delhi's oil purchase from Russia as the reason behind the move.

Trump said that imposing secondary tariffs on India "essentially took them out of buying oil from Russia".

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