EU weighs temporary freeze on Russia oil price cap over Iran — Bloomberg

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The EU is considering a temporary freeze to its price cap on Russian oil as the war in the Middle East continues into a fourth month, said people familiar with the matter.(May 31): The European Union ...

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The current price threshold is US$44.10 ($56.33) per barrel and is due for review later this summer.\nUnder the cap, European firms are banned from providing services such as insurance and transportation involving oil sold above the threshold.\nOil prices have soared as a result of the Iran war and the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The next price cap review in July would likely see the level rise to at least US$65, higher than the previous US$60 threshold set collectively by the Group of Seven, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations. \nThe freeze would keep the price cap at the current rate, thereby limiting the windfall Russia is pocketing from current high oil prices. Other options under consideration include suspending dynamic and automatic increases until the end of the year in light of the exceptional circumstances in the Middle East, or capping any rise to US$60 back in line with the G7 level, the people said.\nThe move would be part of the EU’s latest sanctions package, the bloc’s 21st since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The EU aims to finalise and formally propose a package of new measures in early June. Member-state envoys were briefed on the plans last week. \nOther measures under discussion for the new sanctions package include targeting more banks, oil traders, refineries and crypto operators in third countries used by Moscow to circumvent the bloc’s restrictions. As well, about 20 additional tankers would be sanctioned in the covert fleet of vessels that Russia depends on to move its oil, and eventually that regime would be extended to ships carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG), limiting the Kremlin’s ability to create a shadow fleet for LNG.\nThe EU has so far sanctioned hundreds of vessels and intends to also target ships providing services to the tankers, the people said.\nHowever, the new sanctions are unlikely to include a full ban on maritime services. Several member states continue to oppose that option due to the volatility in the Middle East, and unless the measure is backed by the wider G7.\nThe main goals of the new package, the people said, are to further tighten the screws on Russia’s energy revenues and its financial sector, as well as starving its military industry of essential supplies. Sanctions require the backing of all member states before they’re adopted, and plans could change before that. Maritime nations such as Greece have often bristled at price-cap changes, while other capitals are particularly sensitive toward what they say are their energy and trade interests.\nOther proposals for the next package include trade restrictions on some critical minerals, metals and ores used in Russia’s aerospace sector and to develop the drones it uses to bomb Ukraine’s cities, as well as technologies such as jamming.\nThe bloc is also considering export controls on about two dozen firms, including companies in China, India, Türkiye and Central Asia, that are allegedly still supplying Russia with restricted goods found in weapons or needed to make them.\nThe EU is also in the early stages of assessing ways to help the clearing house Euroclear Ltd after a Moscow court judgement allowed for the Central Bank of Russia to potentially seize its assets. That came after the EU approved the use of emergency powers to indefinitely extend a freeze on as much as €210 billion (US$245 billion or $312.47 billion) in Russian central bank assets immobilised. Most of those funds are held through Euroclear.\nThe EU intends to keep the assets immobilised until the war ends and Russia pays reparations to Ukraine. Several member states, including Belgium, have opposed all efforts to seize the assets outright.\nDiscussions on introducing a visa ban on former combatants are continuing as well, the people said.\nSpokespeople for the European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm that coordinates the EU’s sanctions efforts, declined to comment. \nUploaded by Chng Shear Lane","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"isVideo":false,"video":null,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":false,"need_login_tip":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"tenantId":"TBGLOBAL","deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.43.1","shortVersion":"4.43.1","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2640954679","isCrawlerRequest":true}