The Trump administration has imposed new sanctions targeting eight entities and two individuals linked to the Cuban regime’s foreign military support and illegal revenue networks.

The U.S. State Department said the sanctions were intended to advance the administration’s push to end the regime’s “malign activities” in Cuba and across the Western Hemisphere. The sanctions designated entities and individuals associated with Cuba’s shipping networks, China-based suppliers of Cuba’s military forces, state-owned import and technical support entities, and Cuban elites.

In recent months, the Trump administration has increased pressure on Cuba to make political and economic reforms by maintaining an oil blockade against the regime and imposing multiple rounds of sanctions targeting Cuban entities and individuals.

“The United States will not tolerate subversive communist networks in our hemisphere,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a Thursday X post.

“The Marxist Cuban regime relies on a web of state-owned enterprises, joint ventures, and offshore intermediaries to keep its systems running, and its foreign backers supply the military equipment that helps sustain the regime’s military forces and enables persistent threats to the American homeland,” he said.

Two China-based companies, China National Electronic Import and Export Company and Beijing H&C Technologies, were designated by the State Department on Thursday for allegedly helping export military equipment to the Cuban regime in 2026.

In Thursday’s announcement, the State Department cited its July 20 report titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” which noted that China and Russia have both supplied the Cuban regime with military hardware, surveillance technology, and other security capabilities.

Other sanctioned entities included Cyprus-based Caroil Transport Marine LTD, Panama-based Tentacool Commercial Inc, Cuba-based Internacional Marítima, and Cuba-based Petróleos Marítimos del Caribe. The four entities were sanctioned for operating or having operated in Cuba’s energy sector.

Guillermo Faustino Rodríguez López-Calleja, who is part of a network of shipping companies that transport petroleum products to and from Cuba, and Any Rodriguez Lastres, daughter of sanctioned Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A. President Ania Guillermina Lastres Morera, were also sanctioned by the State Department.

The Trump administration also sanctioned Cubaelectrónica, a Cuban state-owned importer for the country’s electronics industry, as well as Tecnosime, a state-owned company that carries out commercial, labor, and promotional activities generating funds for the regime.

The entities and individuals sanctioned on Thursday were designated under Executive Order 14404, “Imposing Sanctions on Those Responsible for Repression in Cuba and for Threats to United States National Security and Foreign Policy,” which President Donald Trump issued in May. The order targets foreign individuals deemed responsible for Cuban repression or presenting threats to U.S. national security, and individuals who support the Cuban regime’s security apparatus.

Under the Nov. 5 sanctions, any property belonging to the designated entities and individuals in the United States or in the possession of U.S. persons will be blocked and must be reported to the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. Any entities owned 50 percent or more by blocked persons will also be blocked.

The State Department also announced that the director of the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a determination on Thursday authorizing sanctions on any foreigners who are operating or have previously operated in Cuba’s manufacturing, electronics, technology, and marine sectors.

The State Department stated that the new sanctions do not target the Cuban people but instead target the Cuban regime and its enablers. It added that the United States will continue to authorize humanitarian trade, such as food, medicine, and medical devices, for the Cuban people.

“The Trump Administration will not stand by while the Cuban regime funnels the island’s resources to its military elite, while regime insiders and their family members profit from opaque offshore networks, and while Cuba continues to serve as a staging ground for a global coalition of hostile anti-American actors to threaten, spy on, and plot against the United States and its interests,” Rubio said in a press statement on Thursday.

During a midterm campaign rally on Oct. 23, Trump said the United States would “take care of Cuba” after the Iran conflict was finished and hinted at the possibility of U.S. military intervention.

The United Nations General Assembly voted last week in favor of a resolution calling for the United States to end its 64-year-old economic embargo on Cuba. The vote marked the 34th consecutive year the United Nations has condemned the embargo.