{"id":1037190,"date":"2026-09-21T08:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037190"},"modified":"2026-09-21T09:28:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:58:03","slug":"double-whammy-as-trump-extends-h-1b-fee-signs-russia-sanctions-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/21\/double-whammy-as-trump-extends-h-1b-fee-signs-russia-sanctions-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Double whammy as Trump extends H-1B fee, signs Russia sanctions Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump late Friday (US time) signed the controversial \u2018Lindsey O Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026\u2019, authorising US to impose tariffs of up to 100% on imports from the five largest foreign buyers of Russian crude oil and natural gas, putting India and China at direct risk of penalties. <\/p>\n<p>The Act provides for property-blocking sanctions on foreign vessels that knowingly transport certain Russian-origin products, including crude oil, uranium and coal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump late Friday (US time) signed the controversial \u2018Lindsey O Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026\u2019, authorising US to impose tariffs of up to 100% on imports from the five largest foreign buyers of Russian crude oil and natural gas, putting India and China at direct risk of penalties. The Act provides for property-blocking sanctions on foreign vessels that knowingly transport certain Russian-origin products, including crude oil, uranium and coal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037223,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037190\/revisions\/1037223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}