trade embargo

The US trade embargo was first imposed in 1962 in the wake of the revolution in Cuba, which swept Fidel Castro to power.

And Georgian officials have long denied that the country has been complicit in aiding Russia’s evasion of the trade embargoes.

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.

The US has had a tense relationship with Cuba ever since Fidel Castro overthrew the island's US-backed government in 1959, a revolution that was swiftly followed by a US trade embargo.

The pair also entered a trade embargo when a marriage negotiation turned sour.