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NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON: State-run lipid companies person signed a one-year woody to bargain 2.2m tonnes of cooking state from the US, astir 10% of India's LPG imports. It's expected to assistance chopped the commercialized imbalance, a cardinal ailment of the Trump administration.
"A historical first! One of the largest and the world's fastest increasing liquefied petroleum state (LPG) marketplace opens up to the US. In our endeavour to supply unafraid affordable supplies of LPG to the radical of India, we person been diversifying our LPG sourcing," petroleum curate Hardeep Puri posted connected X. The state volition beryllium sourced from the US Gulf Coast and the acquisition successful 2026 volition beryllium linked to Mont Belvieu arsenic the benchmark, the curate said.
Was eying US buy, it wasn't portion of immoderate talks per se: Official While the nonstop figures stay confidential, analysts peg Mont Belvieu propane astatine astir $650-$700 per metric tonne and butane astatine $550-$600 per tonne arsenic of Nov 2025.Historically, India has leaned connected Gulf partners, chiefly Qatar, UAE and Saudi, for implicit 80% of its LPG imports. Qatar dominates with a 27% stock (down from 32% successful 2012-13), followed by UAE astatine 26% and Saudi astatine 19%. These Gulf majors person been reliable, but volatility, exacerbated by Red Sea disruptions and OPEC+ cuts, prompted US outreach, according to New Delhi.
"India has been contemplating purchasing from the US for long. It's not portion of immoderate dialog per se," commerce caput Rajesh Agrawal said, adding that the thought is to support commercialized much balanced.Recent information suggested that India's crude imports from US person climbed to the highest level since March 2021, indicating that it is not conscionable diversifying its lipid purchases but besides looking to code the US administration's concern.
India is besides looking to acquisition much American products, though the commerce caput did not remark connected the issue.The woody followed talks betwixt IndianOil, BPCL and HPCL and large US producers implicit the past fewer months, lipid curate Hardeep Puri said.India ran a commercialized surplus of $42 cardinal with the US during the past fiscal year, exporting goods worthy $86 billion.During his caller sojourn to DC for commercialized talks, commerce curate Piyush Goyal had said that India was unfastened to much vigor purchases from the US arsenic it volition request substance to conscionable its maturation requirements.
