Three Republican US Senators said on Friday they submitted legislation to exempt India from sanctions under CAATSA for buying S 400 missile system from Russia, citing the importance of working with allies to keep a check on China.
Senators Ted Cruz, Todd Young, and Roger Marshall filed a bill which would create a 10-year exemption for member countries of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Australia, Japan, and India) from sanctions imposed by CAATSA, a law that intended to punish countries who did business with Russia.
Republican Senator John Cornyn and Democratic Senator Mark Warner, in a letter to President Joe Biden on Tuesday, called for a waiver on the grounds of national security and broader cooperation.
CAATSA is a stringent US law that authorises the administration to impose sanctions on countries that buy major defense hardware from Russia in response to the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its alleged meddling in the 2016 US Presidential elections.
