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Washington.- The ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that has forced the Government of President Donald Trump to not impose tariffs under an economic emergency law reverses the additional levies with which countries that supply crude oil to Cuba were penalized, although it does not prohibit future punishments and surrounds with uncertainty Washington's current pressure campaign on Havana.
After the highest US court considered last Friday that Trump exceeded his authority by invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose a large part of his customs duties on other countries, the president was forced to sign an executive order that same day to establish "the end of certain tariff actions".
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Among the tariffs that the Trump Administration has been forced to cancel are those imposed by Trump against crude oil suppliers to Cuba in an executive order, 14380, signed by Trump himself on January 29, 2026. That order 14380 established that, considering that the activities of the Cuban Government are a national threat to the U.S., "an additional ad valorem tariff may be imposed on imports of goods that are products of a foreign country that sells or otherwise supplies, directly or indirectly, petroleum to Cuba". As it is covered by sections of the IEEPA, the implementation of said customs penalties has had to be deactivated. However, the order from last Friday stipulates that the "national emergency" declared with respect to Cuba "remains in effect", so the U.S. is not categorically prohibited from imposing tariffs or other future trade measures against countries that supply oil to the island if they are regulated by other legal figures. This leaves in the air for the moment the possibility of Washington punishing or not a country that facilitates crude oil to Cuba today. In January, after the capture of Nicolás Maduro, the U.S. ended the flow of Venezuelan oil to Cuba. This, added to the tariffs for other suppliers, has left the island severely affected by the lack of fuel.
