The US House of Representatives has passed by voice vote a legislative amendment that approves waiver to India against the punitiveCAATSAsanctions for its purchase of the S-400 missile DEFENCE system from Russia to help deter aggressors like China.
The legislative amendment was passed on Thursday as part of an en bloc (all together as a single unit) amendment during floor consideration of the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA).
CAATSAis a tough US law that authorises the US administration to impose sanctions on countries that purchase major defence hardware from Russia in response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its alleged meddling in the 2016 US presidential .