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- President Donald Trump’s administration is weighing easing sanctions on shadow-fleet oil tankers.
- Tanker freight rates have hit record highs as Iran and Ukraine wars raise Asian refiners’ costs.
- Energy Secretary Chris Wright says easing sanctions would lower those rates and support U.S. crude demand.
- Trump lifted sanctions on Russian diesel through April 7, which Zelenskiy and Senate Republicans called a gift to Putin.
