United States Authorizes Russian Diesel Until April 2027 After Trump-Putin Deal

On October 9, 2026, the United States authorized operations involving Russian-origin diesel until April 7, 2027, hours after President Donald Trump announced that Vladimir Putin had committed to supplying more than 300,000 tons of that fuel to the U.S. and world markets.

The license from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), reported by Forbes México, allows the sale, delivery, discharge and import of Russian diesel, including its entry into the U.S. market, and keeps in place the restriction on charges to accounts held by three financial bodies of the Russian state. The measure temporarily eases the sanctions Washington imposed on March 8, 2022, when it banned imports of Russian oil and petroleum products. The move matters for Mexico because the country covers much of its consumption through foreign purchases: Expansión reported on September 30, 2026 that imports covered 38% of national diesel consumption in the first half of the year, and that the United States is the origin of 98% of those purchases.

In his October 9 message, Trump wrote that the conversation with Putin produced an agreement for Russia to supply "immediately more than 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to the U.S. and world markets; another 500,000 tons during the month of November and 1,000,000 tons immediately afterward," according to Aristegui Noticias. The president added that, depending on the condition of Russian refineries, Russia will deliver an additional 3,000,000 tons within a short period. The announcement comes at a time of high diesel prices in the U.S. market. The same Expansión analysis put average national consumption at 442,000 barrels per day between January and June 2026, with national production of 273,000 barrels per day.

The market will be watching closely whether the announced volumes are delivered and how they feed through to imported diesel prices. The U.S. license expires on April 7, 2027, and payments through the three restricted Russian financial bodies remain outside the authorization.

This article was written with the assistance of artificial intelligence from verified sources and reviewed by a human editor before publication.