embargo on exports

During the War of 1812, American cotton had become almost worthless due to an embargo on exports.

He has been arrested on federal charges including violating the embargo on exports to Iran.

However, an embargo on exports of pulpwood would also benefit Barnjum's business interests.

On February 26 there was enacted an embargo on exports to Britain.

Once Iraq does so, the United Nations-mandated embargo on exports like oil should be eased.

With regard to the embargo on exports of British beef, you are aware of all the decisions taken by the Florence European Council.

At the end of January 1944 the United States suspended its supplies of petroleum to Spain and advocated a full embargo on exports.

The latter have been hit by embargoes on exports, imposed by some Gulf countries to inhibit the spread of Rift Valley Fever.

That was January 1974, a few months after Arab oil producers cut back on supplies and imposed their short-lived embargo on exports to the United States.

For many farmers, the embargo on exports to Iraq means they are cut off from one of their better grain customers at a time when good clients are sorely needed.

(To clarify the other poster's advice, the U.S. has no general embargo on exports to North Korea, though some goods and services are restricted.)

In July 1941, the United States, along with Britain and the Dutch East Indies, had imposed a total embargo on exports to Japan, including critical oil supplies.

For various reasons the memorial was not completed until 1917, with World War I, material shortages, an embargo on exports of French moulding sand and transportation limitations creating lengthy delays.

These include an embargo on exports from Serbia and Montenegro, a freeze on financial assets held abroad in the name of the former Yugoslav federation and a possible oil embargo.

Administration analysts who closely follow the events in the gulf said the global embargo on exports to Iraq of food and other goods is unlikely to visibly affect Mr. Hussein's Government until next year.

In a report, the commission said that an embargo on exports from Serbia and Montenegro could have "an important impact" on the two republics since more than 50 percent of their foreign sales are to the community.

Delays and More Delays Yugoslavia depends on imported raw materials for its pharmaceutical industry, and an evident cause of the medical shortages is the embargo on exports, which can earn foreign currency.

The proposal arose partly from concern about the sufferings of ordinary civilians in Iraq, which has been subject to an embargo on exports and most imports since the Persian Gulf war ended four years ago.

Mr. Mosbacher's remarks were consistent with those of other Administration officials, who in light of new political relationships have called for re-examination of the 40-year embargo on exports of high technology to the East.

The Iraqi Government has had the help of France and Russia - and some sympathy from other nations on the Security Council - in its efforts to bring about easing of the embargo on exports and imports.

His people, hampered in their agriculture by poor soil and resolutely conservative farmers, were also greatly dependent upon the farms of Maritiene for food, and an embargo on exports would have brought Him to his knees in short order.