Japan would be hard placed to follow in the EU’s footsteps and embargo Russian oil and oil products, the country’s economy, trade, and industry minister Koichi Haguida said today, as quoted by Reuters. The comments come after the U.S. president said he would discuss further sanction pressure on Russia with fellow G7 members. The U.S. itself banned all Russian oil and refined product imports last month. Earlier this week, the European Union’s executive arm, the European Commission, proposed a gradual six-month phase-out of Russian…
