The Senate's Russia bill opens the way to 100 percent tariffs on China, India and Türkiye

The Senate advanced the "Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026" this week by 86 votes to 12, sending it to the House of Representatives, which is in summer recess. The bill would let the president use the IEEPA statute to impose tariffs of up to 100 percent on imports from the five largest purchasers of Russian energy and up to 500 percent on imports directly from Russia, while sanctioning Vladimir Putin, more than twenty senior officials and Russia's shadow fleet of oil tankers. China, India and Türkiye are among the biggest buyers of Russian energy according to data compiled by the research centre CREA, and Trump has demanded that the bill also cover tariffs tied to Iran, which analysts think could delay it.

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