Trump to hit the countries that buy Venezuelane oil with a 25% tariff

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Donald Trump said that the USA will impose a 25 -month tariff on all imports from any country that buys oil from Venezuela, a movement that can violently raise fees for goods from China and India, the two largest Caracas oil buyers.

The announcement on Monday came a few days before the planned unveiling of the new tariff system on American trading partners and among the chaotic implementation of commercial policy marked by reversing and dizzy.

In a post about the truth, the US president said that he was imposing a new tariff for “many reasons”, claiming that “Venezuela has intentionally and insidiously sent to the United States, secret, tens of thousands of high levels and other criminals, many of whom are murderers and people of a very violent character.”

The last escalation of Trump’s trade war will take place just a few days after Caracas agreed to start receiving the plans of deported migrants from the USA, in determining the US President.

Movement risks turning the oil on the oil market, which so far the White House wanted to avoid to prevent disturbing the supply of gasoline prices for American drivers.

Venezuela exported 660,000 barrels a day around the world last year, with China, India and Spain among the best buyers.

According to the Federal Energy Information Administration, the US themselves imported about 230,000 b/dz Venezuela in 2024, which makes the nation of South America was the third largest supplier after Canada and Mexico.

Trump described an unprecedented movement as a “secondary tariff” and said that it would take an impact from April 2, which he called “the Day of Liberation” when mutual tariffs to other countries will come into force.

At the beginning of this month, the American Chevron license for activities in Venezuela, which is subject to wide sanctions, ordering the California Oil group based within 30 days.

This license allowed Chevron to export about 200,000 b/two last year, which according to the democratic opposition of Venezuela was allocated to financing the repression of Nicolás Maduro’s government.

Chevron refused to comment on Monday’s tariff advertisement.

As part of the Venezuela Agreement, the resumption of acceptance of deported to the USA transporting 199 people landed near Caracas on Sunday.

In recent weeks, Trump has forced to deport on hundreds of alleged members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, which the US has appointed a terrorist organization.

In his truth, on Monday, Trump appealed to the gang and said that Venezuela was “very hostile to the United States and the freedom we tell.”

At the beginning of this month, the US deported some alleged members of the Gang to El Salvador, where President Nayib Bukele agreed to stop them in “very good prisons at a fair price, which our taxpayers’ dollars would also save.”

On Monday, the Department of Justice said that he was deporting three alleged members of Tren de Aragua to Chile.

The Maduro government, which often used the exodus of its citizens as a lever in negotiations with Washington, said that the migrants were “kidnapped” and sent to Salvador.