Sentences with phrase «u.s. embargo»

A recognized authority on the legal and regulatory frameworks comprising the U.S. embargo on trade with Cuba, Matthew speaks and writes frequently on developments in bilateral...

A couple of months ago, President Obama visited Cuba, attended a baseball game with President Raúl Castro, and, in a public address, called for the lifting of the U.S. embargo.

Looking at the impact of the Cuban Revolution and the U.S. Embargo on Cuba's social, cultural, and economic development, the student work reflects contemporary life in Havana.

U.S. embargo regulations are complicated, and even if a commercial gallery is able to obtain a license from the U.S. Treasury Department to purchase and import art from Cuba, a dealer can not commission a new work of art or finance future projects by artists living on the island.

Don't bother taking your American Express if you're visiting countries that have a U.S. Embargo, i.e. Cuba.

Their chief impediment is the U.S. embargo in place for a half - century.

Local scientists, in part due to the U.S. embargo against Cuba, possess scant resources.

And in some of the places in eastern Cuba they have been trying to get a better source of protein because part of the U.S. embargo has been restricting the importations of proteins for the people or the farming for any other animals.

The U.S. embargo blocks federal research funding from reaching Cuban scientists.

Last month it was announced the U.S. embargo on Cuba would be eased and diplomatic relations normalized.

All we know is that the skies over Iraq were rent with the agonizing cries of women and children, denied food and medicine by a U.N. alias U.S. embargo.

A U.S. embargo will remain in place, and only Congress can lift it.

The red flags of an imminent U.S. embargo on Venezuelan crude are already apparent, according to an oil analyst, with ramifications of such a move likely to exacerbate an unprecedented economic meltdown.

If and when the U.S. embargo is no more, Americans will face a Cuban government operating on its own unique terms.

Not exact matches

The recession of 1973 - 1975 in the U.S. came about because of rocketing gas prices caused by OPEC's raising oil prices as well as embargoing oil exports to the U.S..

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While Cuba is greenfield territory for U.S. entrepreneurs, their counterparts from Canada, Europe, Latin America, Israel and China have not been bound by the same embargo restrictions; many are already doing business in Cuba and will fight to protect their interests.

While rules have relaxed for some imports, travel and telecommunications services, most U.S. firms will not be free to set up shop in Cuba until Congress lifts the embargo, which insiders say is unlikely to happen before Obama leaves office in early 2017.

Despite the thawing of Cuba - U.S. relations, the trade embargo remains in place, and can only be removed by an act of Congress.

Ever since John F. Kennedy signed Presidential Proclamation 3447 on Feb. 3, 1962, declaring «an embargo upon all trade» in response to Cuba nationalizing U.S. - owned Cuban oil refineries without compensation, Americans have been effectively blocked from doing business in the country.

The now - repealed U.S. oil export ban dated back to an era of feared fuel shortages after Arab members of OPEC imposed an embargo against the United States in retaliation for U.S. support of the Israeli military.

Last week, a 33 - year - old former McKinsey consultant was arrested on charges of helping Iranian investors skirt the U.S.'s financial embargo.

Cuba was formally removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism late last month, a critical step toward rapprochement 54 years after Washington cut off relations at the height of the Cold War and imposed an economic embargo.

The sanctions came after ZTE violated terms of a settlement with U.S. regulators over selling telecommunications gear to Iran and North Korea, which were subject to U.S. trade embargoes.

The U.S. - Saudi strategic alliance survived the 1970s oil embargo and 9/11, and is now bound by a common, and more pronounced, anti-Iran rhetoric under President Trump.

Adding to the turmoil, the OPEC oil embargo in 1973 sent crude prices higher, further hurting U.S. consumers who also battled with the devaluation of the U.S. dollar.

The U.S. has had an embargo on Cuba for more than 50 years.

However, based on past experience, the 1973 - 74 oil embargo, the oil industry will find a way to re-route traffic, such that neither exports from Venezuela nor imports to the U.S. are affected.

The settlement involved telecommunications gear that ZTE supplied to Iran that contained U.S. components in violation of a trade embargo.

Taking the dollar off of the gold standard along with the Arab Oil Embargo sent it plunging and the U.S. needed something to replace it.

The arrival opens a new era of U.S. - Cuba travel with about 300 flights a week connecting the U.S. with an island cut off from most Americans by the 55 - year - old trade embargo on Cuba and formal ban on U.S. citizens engaging in tourism on the...

At the Washington Energy Conference of 1974, convened in the wake of the first Arab oil embargo, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger prevailed on Saudi Arabia to buy U.S. arms and Treasury bonds, and to invest its «petrodollar» profits back in Western banks.

The U.S. economic embargo against Nicaragua as well as aggressive lobbying of U.S. allies to reduce political and economic support have been regular features of U.S. policy.

• On May 1, 1985, President Reagan declared an embargo as part of the U.S. economic war to impose suffering on the Nicaraguan people.

In Nicaragua the U.S. combined powerful military embargoes with military funding for a private guerrilla force, the contras, thus decimating that country.

In the oil embargo of 1973 concrete plans were considered for the invasion of OPEC countries to secure the oil the U.S. was thought to need.

More important and immediate than the embargo question, I was impressed by the way that U.S. pilgrims to Cuba - including cardinals, bishops, and many priests - evinced a sense of urgency about ongoing and very practical work with the Cuban Church.

Voters knew a Sandinista victory would mean a continuation of the U.S. economic embargo and the U.S. contra war.

As the U.S. starts to normalize relations, Hillary Clinton while in Miami called for a lifting of the Cuban embargo.

The PRC still relies heavily upon exports (possibly even more so after the Shanghai market crash that is ongoing) and the major markets for this are the U.S., Japan and the ROC, which would surely embargo any goods out of China if war broke out, costing the PRC billions in revenue daily.

Clinton seized the moment on a new report alleging that Trump explored business opportunities in Cuba in the late 1990s, in an apparent violation of the U.S. trade embargo.

Even with restoration of full diplomatic ties, the U.S. economic embargo is still in place and continues to put barriers on scientific groups to easily share technology and equipment between labs in the two countries.

Will U.S. states be forced to stop executing their death - row inmates by a drug embargo?

U.S. auto manufacturers dabbled in the diesel auto industry during the oil embargo in the late 1970s, when there was a strong push to bring more efficient vehicle technologies to market.

The lengthy delay drew complaints from some advocates of public access, who noted it was longer than the 12 - month embargo embraced by White House officials and many U.S. scientific societies and publishers.

At the AAAS meeting, the researchers explained that the journal didn't want to break the rules of the U.S. trade embargo.

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Unfortunately for Chrysler, consumers and the U.S. government started seriously caring about fuel economy when OPEC enacted an oil embargo in late 1973, so the Ramcharger never had the chance to live as freely as its rivals had in the years prior.

Even with its debut in Brazil Jeep is telling U.S. reporters they still have to abide by its embargo until it makes its official U.S. debut at the LA auto show in November.