The Trump administration's goal is to prevent the island from continuing to receive crude oil and financial resources from abroad, particularly from allies like Venezuela. The decision emerges in a context of tightened U.S. policy towards Havana, following previous warnings from Trump himself. He has asserted that Cuba would no longer receive "either Venezuelan oil or money" unless it agreed to engage in negotiations with Washington. The executive order establishes a mechanism to identify countries involved in supplying oil to the island and to apply trade sanctions through tariffs. The threat of tariffs on third-party countries trading oil with Cuba reinforces this logic of total encirclement.