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Imposing Tariffs on Countries Importing Venezuelan Oil
Executive Orders
March 24, 2025
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and in view of the national emergency declared with respect to Venezuela in Executive Order 13692 of March 8, 2015 (Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Venezuela), as continued most recently in the notice of February 27, 2025 (Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Venezuela), I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the actions and policies of the regime of Nicolás Maduro in...
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1) This EO is the first of its kind insofar as it is a type of secondary sanctions where the result is the imposition of a tariff on an entire country (or a "secondary tariff" as described in the social media post announcing the EO at https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114217914259825110). The State Department makes the decision as to whether to impose the tariff, and then it is implemented by CPB, so this type of sanctions provision would ordinarily fall outside the scope of the Research System as related to OFAC, but it is included here given the relationship between OFAC's role in imposing sanctions for Venezuelan oil-related activities and this new (IEEPA-based) authority.