trade embargo

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This is on top of a six-decade US trade embargo.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

Despite imposition of the US trade embargo in 1962, Cuba had eight power plants built in the 1980s and 1990s.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

In the War of 1812, Congress authorized federal customs officers, then responsible for enforcing a trade embargo with England, to move shipowner claims against them to federal court.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

When then-President Bill Clinton announced the end of a U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam in 1994, hundreds of people rallied on Bolsa Avenue, Little Saigon’s main drag, to decry the decision.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025

In the coming months, he would declare an oil embargo, freeze Japanese assets in America, and finally declare a total trade embargo.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand