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embargo

The legal prohibition by a government of trade with another country, forbidding foreign ships to leave or enter its ports.

Trade embargoes, as economic sanctions, may be imposed on a country seen to be violating international laws.

They may be used as a tool of bilateral (political) policy, such as the embargo of sensitive technology that existed between the USA and the USSR.



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OFAC advised that most basic editing--even as little as the "reordering of paragraphs or sentences, correction of syntax, gram mar, and replacement of inappropriate words," or the addition of a single illustration--constituted a "service" provided to a citizen of a fully embargoed country and was therefore punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Outlaw editors: change a lede, go to jail by Welch, Matt / Reason
In July 2000, the House of Representatives cut funding for the enforcement of the ban on travel and for enforcement of the ban on the sale of food and medicine to currently embargoed nations, including Cuba, (Latin American Working Group) essentially lifting restrictions on these measures.
Cuba: potential or potential threat by Becker, Hilary M. / Journal of Academy of Business and Economics
Finally, the German restrictions were dropped on the morning of March 27, when all embargoed food containers at the port of Rotterdam were released for delivery to Germany, said Wout Schalk, Manager of U.
Food distribution restored to U.S. military forces. (Foot-and-mouth ... by de Jong, Bram / Translog
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