India, Aug. 6 -- US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced an extra 25 percent tariff on India as 'penalty' for the continued purchase of Russian crude oil.

He vowed similar actions against other countries that purchase, directly or indirectly, from Russia and fund cash-strapped Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine.

Trump's latest tax crusader takes total duties on import of Indian goods into the United States to 50 percent - 20 per cent more than the tariff on China and 21 per cent more than on Pakistan.

The 50 percent tariff hit comes hours after angry comments about India-US trade relations.

"India has not been a good trading partner... we settled on 25 percent... but I think I'm going to raise that substantially over the next 24...