trade embargo
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Cuba, under a US trade embargo since 1962, has for years battled shortages of fuel, medicine and food, even before the Caribbean country of 9.6 million people lost its main oil supplier.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 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
Exhausted with the British Empire impressing American sailors into military service and refusing to accept United States neutrality in its conflict with France, Jefferson imposed a general trade embargo that crippled the New England economy.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2024
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
