CARACAS, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Monday that his country will continue on the path of productive economic recovery despite the U.S. unilateral coercive measures.

The United States has imposed a 25 percent tariff on any country that trades with Venezuela in oil and gas.

"If yesterday the battle was with spears and on horseback, today the battle is to produce, supply, export and develop," said Maduro via state television.

Maduro said that Venezuelans have everything they need and that the country will never be a colony. ■