Overview
- The executive order permits additional duties on U.S. imports from any nation that directly or indirectly sells or provides oil to Cuba, without specifying rates or a target list.
- It vests Commerce, State, Treasury, Homeland Security, and the U.S. Trade Representative with authority to identify suppliers and determine tariff levels.
- Mexico faces sharp pressure after President Claudia Sheinbaum said Pemex had temporarily paused some deliveries, while stressing the decision was sovereign and that humanitarian aid would continue.
- Havana denounced the move, with Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez calling it a "brutal act of aggression" and President Miguel Díaz-Canel accusing Washington of trying to "suffocate" the economy.
- The action follows the U.S. cutoff of Venezuelan crude after Nicolás Maduro’s capture, intensifying Cuba’s fuel shortages and blackouts as challenges to broad tariff powers advance at the Supreme Court.