trade embargo


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Noun1.trade embargo - a government order imposing a trade barriertrade embargo - a government order imposing a trade barrier
import barrier, trade barrier - any regulation or policy that restricts international trade
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Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- The White House said on Monday that US President Donald Trump signed a decree to extend the 1962 trade embargo against Cuba for one more year.
DOHA Ever since the trade embargo was imposed on Qatar in June 2017, Al Meera has brought in over 20,000 individual items as direct replacement for products from blockading countries, its Chairman Sheikh Thani bin Thamer bin Mohammed al Thani has said.
5 per cent annually.Sudan's problems had begun earlier in 1997 when the US imposed a trade embargo and froze certain assets belonging to firms owned by the Sudanese, including a trade embargo and asset freezes, for "terrorism" concerns and rights violations.
KHARTOUMCity, Shawwal 8, 1438, Jul 2, 2017, SPA -- Sudan will extend a unilateral ceasefire with rebels until the end of October, a decree by President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Sunday, two weeks before the United States plans to lift a 20-year-old trade embargo against Sudan, Reuters reported The U.S.
The US still has a trade embargo with Cuba in place.
Minutes from the meeting where the motion was passed reads: "Following the latest attacks by the Israeli State on the territory of the Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, this council calls for a trade embargo with Israel and condemns the over-reaction and savageness used.
The threat of a trade embargo imposed by Hardcastle sees acting boss Gordon backed into a corner, and Harry called to account.
Greg Abbott hasn't outright called for repeal of the United States' decades-old trade embargo with Cuba, he made clear to Cubans Tuesday that Texas is ready to jump at the business opportunity if it happens.
"Also one reason why we want all deliveries of machines by January because we are anticipating the release of the arbitration decision by then so baka may trade embargo, may mga issues dyan so we don't want that, we want to avoid the complications," he pointed out.
He observed that the trade embargo still stands, but ending that is up to Congress, "a step we strongly favor."
The question of whether restoring diplomatic relations or even ending the US trade embargo was the best thing to do will be answered in time.