White House Declares Cuba a National Threat and Tees Up Oil-Linked Tariffs
The White House declares Cuba a national emergency, accusing the regime of aligning with adversaries and supporting transnational terrorists, and creates a framework to impose additional ad valorem duties on imports from countries that directly or indirectly provide oil to Cuba, with implementation and monitoring led by the Commerce, State, Treasury, and related agencies, effective January 30, 2026.