US Signals Harder Push on Enforcement of Russia Oil Price Cap

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The US will ramp up enforcement of the price cap on Russian oil exports, a senior Treasury official said on Wednesday.

Since October, the US and its allies have been imposing sanctions on entities deemed to have breached the cap on Russian crude exports, which came into effect late last year and was set at $60 a barrel. For much of the summer prices breached that threshold.