Trump has increased pressure on Cuba and threatened tariffs on countries that supply it with oil.

US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on countries that supply oil to Cuba, amid increasing pressure from Washington on the Caribbean nation, reports Air forceThe proposed new duties are mentioned in the presidential decree, but it does not specify specific tariff rates or which countries may be affected.

The current US president has repeatedly threatened measures against Cuba and its communist leadership.

Finally, on January 27, Trump declared that Cuba was "going to collapse pretty soon" because its longtime ally Venezuela was no longer supplying the country with oil or financial support after President Nicolás Maduro was captured by US forces on January 3. Previously, the South American country was believed to have been sending Cuba around 35,000 barrels of oil per day.

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In an executive order signed on January 29, Trump declared that "the policies, practices, and actions of the Government of Cuba constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat."

Among other things, he accused Havana of hosting “dangerous adversaries of the United States.”

The duties could target countries that "directly or indirectly sell or otherwise provide any petroleum to Cuba."

Trump has previously demanded that Cuba "make a deal before it's too late," but has not specified the terms of a possible agreement or the consequences the island nation might face.

Then Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said that Washington had no moral right to impose any deal on his country.

The Trump administration's tactics of confiscating sanctioned Venezuelan oil tankers have already begun to worsen Cuba's fuel and energy crisis.

The country is experiencing rolling blackouts, and Cubans are forced to survive without a stable power supply.

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Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez recently declared that the Caribbean island nation has the "absolute right to import fuel" from any willing exporter "without interference and without being subject to unilateral coercive measures by the United States."

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