Trump Threatens Tariffs on Countries That Send Oil to Cuba (1)

US President Donald Trump authorized his administration to slap tariffs on goods from countries that provide oil to Cuba, tightening the squeeze on the communist-run government he wants to see replaced.

Trump signed an executive order that will first identify which countries provide Cuba with oil, and then decide what additional export duties should be imposed.

“The Government of Cuba has taken extraordinary actions that harm and threaten the United States,” Trump wrote in the order. “The regime aligns itself with — and provides support for — numerous hostile countries, transnational terrorist groups, and malign actors adverse to the United ...