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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
READOUT: Deputy Secretary Adeyemo’s Meeting with Price Cap
Coalition Deputies
January 20, 2023

WASHINGTON – On Friday, January 20, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo met
virtually with Deputy Ministers representing the global coalition of countries imposing the price
cap on seaborne Russian crude oil (the Price Cap Coalition) to discuss their progress to date and
identify further steps to finalize the price cap policy for Russian refined products. The meeting
underscored the unity across members of the price cap coalition to hold Russia accountable
through this historic policy.
Collectively, the Price Cap Coalition Deputies acknowledged the price cap on Russian crude oil’s
effect to date in accomplishing the Price Cap Coalition’s dual goals of limiting Russia’s revenues
from oil exports and stabilizing global energy supplies. The Deputies agreed to an approach for
refined products that will institute two distinct caps, in addition to the crude cap: one cap for
products that generally trade at a premium to crude, such as diesel or gasoil, and one for
products that trade at a discount to crude, such as fuel oil. The Deputies agreed that this
approach will better calibrate the price cap policy for refined products, given the wide range of
market prices at which these products trade.
As long as the price cap continues to meet the Coalition’s dual goals, the Deputies agreed to
undertake a review of the level of the crude price cap in March. This will allow the Coalition to
take into account developments in global markets after the refined products caps are
implemented, as well as allow the Coalition to be briefed on the results of the EU’s technical
review of the crude price cap.
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