BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Embargo
- a government order which stops a type of trade, such as exports to, or imports from, a specified country
Wiktionary Definition for: Embargo
- #an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
- #a ban on trade with another country
- #a temporary ban on making certain information public
- # transitive to impose an embargo on trading certain goods with another country
- # transitive to impose an embargo on a document
Additional Resources
- Cuba: Confronting the U.S. Embargo
- Schwab, Peter. Cuba: Confronting the U.S. Embargo. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Bibliography, index, 226 pp; hardcover $29.95, paperback $16.95. The Eisenhower administration imposed a partial embargo on Cuba in 1960, after Cuba's revolutionary government confiscated land and property belonging to U.S. citizens, including the Esso and Texaco oil...
- Research articles 2000-01-01
- Delta Air Lines offers customers alternatives for pet travel during annual summer pet embargo.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 May 2003-DELTA AIR LINES: Delta Air Lines offers customers alternatives for pet travel during annual summer pet embargoC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05012003 ATLANTA -- Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) today announced it will implement its annual embargo on the...
- Research articles 2003-05-02
- Delta announces summer embargo on acceptance of pets as checked baggage.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-15 May 2000-DELTA AIR LINES: Delta announces summer embargo on acceptance of pets as checked baggage C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:12052000 ATLANTA -- Delta Air Lines today announced that it will embargo the acceptance of pets as checked baggage...
- Research articles 2000-05-15
- DAL offers customers alternatives for pet travel during annual summer pet embargo.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-28 April 2004-DELTA AIR LINES: DAL offers customers alternatives for pet travel during annual summer pet embargoC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04272004 ATLANTA - Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) today announced it will implement its annual embargo on the acceptance of...
- Research articles 2004-04-28
- Delta Air Lines offers customers alternatives for pet travel during annual summer pet embargo.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-3 May 2002-DELTA AIR LINES: Delta Air Lines offers customers alternatives for pet travel during annual summer pet embargo C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05032002 ATLANTA -- Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) today announced it will implement its annual embargo...
- Research articles 2002-05-03
- Letter to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services on the arms embargo on Bosnia-Herzegovina
- August 11, 1994Dear Mr. Chairman:I am writing to reaffirm my Administration's support for lifting the international arms embargo on Bosnia and Herzegovina imposed by United Nations Security Council Resolution 713 of September 25, 1991. It has been my long-held view that the arms embargo has unfairly and unintentionally penalized the...
- Research articles 1994-08-15
- Embargo on using NFL highlights - National Football League
- Embargo on using NFL highlights in local stations' pregame and postgame shows "discriminates against free, local, over-the-air television stations," ALTV Pres. James Hedlund said in letter to FCC Chmn. Kennard. NFL reportedly is imposing embargo in bid to improve value of rights bought by networks. Hedlund called embargo "patently unfair...
- Research articles 1998-03-23
- Rice: US not ready to lift Cuba trade embargo despite storm
- RABAT AFP — The United States is not prepared to lift its trade embargo against Cuba, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday, after Havana urged Washington to ease restrictions in the wake of a devastating hurricane. "I don't think in the context that we see now that...
- Research articles 2008-09-07
- Why America should lift its Cuban embargo
- FOR more than thirty years the United States has maintained an economic embargo against Cuba. Essentially the embargo restricts trade, prohibits the sale of food and medicine, and makes travel to Cuba illegal. The embargo was tightened in October 1992, with the passing of the 'Cuba Democracy Act'. The law...
- Research articles 1994-10-01
- US GOVERNMENT IMPOSES EMBARGO ON CATTLE FROM DURANGO, CHIAPAS STATES BECAUSE OF PRESENCE OF BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS.
- The US government has imposed an embargo on imports of live cattle and other livestock from Durango and Chiapas states because of an outbreak of bovine tuberculosis in some areas of the two states. The USDA has also imposed limited restrictions on c The US...
- Research articles 2005-06-15
- Bosnia comes to Washington. (Senate votes to end Bosnian arms embargo)(American Survey)
- The Senate voted 69-29 to lift the embargo on arms shipments to the beleaguered Bosnian government on July 26, 1995, over the objections of the Clinton administration. However, there appears to be little support in the Senate for either direct arms aid orThe Senate voted 69-29 to lift the embargo...
- Research articles 1995-07-29
- Clinton Keeps Embargo on Vietnam But Allows a Limited Role for Business. (Originated from The Orange County Register, Calif.)
- Sep. 14--Continuing a "carrot-and-stick" approach, President Clinton on Monday decided to keep the U.S. trade embargo on Vietnam, while agreeing to allow U.S. companies to compete for development projects there funded by international lendingSep. 14--Continuing a "carrot-and-stick" approach, President Clinton on Monday decided to keep the...
- Research articles 1993-09-13
- WTO unable to resolve dispute over US tuna embargo.
- MEXICO CITY, Mar 24, 2004 (El Economista/Corporate Mexico by Internet Securities, Inc. via COMTEX) -- The World Trade Organization WTO lacks the legal instruments with which to resolve complex issues such as the embargo on Mexican tuna that the Uni MEXICO CITY, Mar 24, 2004 (El...
- Research articles 2004-03-25
- Businesses in California's Orange County Favor Ending Vietnam Trade Embargo. (Originated from The Orange County Register, Calif.)
- Jan. 28--Business leaders generally reacted favorably Thursday to the Senate vote backing the end of the Vietnam trade embargo, saying the tiny Southeast Asia country could prove to be a new market for goods and services produced here should President Jan. 28--Business leaders generally reacted favorably Thursday...
- Research articles 1994-01-28
- Congress May Relax Embargo on Cuba; Issue of Loans for Food Sales Remains.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Jun. 22--WASHINGTON--Lawmakers moved closer Wednesday to easing the 40-year-old embargo against Cuba as support among farm state Republicans and Democrats mounted for eliminating sanctions on food and medicine. Jun. 22--WASHINGTON--Lawmakers moved closer Wednesday to easing the 40-year-old embargo against Cuba as support among farm...
- Research articles 2000-06-22
- Congress unlikely to lift embargo on Cuba.
- No further relaxing of relations with Cuba without Congress' OK. President Clinton has done as much as he can using administrative power. Lifting the embargo takes congressional approval...unlikely anytime soon. No further relaxing of relations with Cuba without Congress' OK. President Clinton has...
- Research articles 1998-04-03
- As 30th Anniversary of Oil Embargo Approaches Alliance to Save Energy Examines Then, Now; Says OPEC Still in 'Driver's Seat'
- WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Thirty years ago, large American cars queued up for hours in lengthy lines for a pauper's ration of a few gallons of gasoline as the OPEC oil embargo exposed our nation's dependence on foreign oil and our national sWASHINGTON, Sept. 29 /U.S. Newswire/ --...
- Research articles 2003-09-29
- IRAQ: IRAQ URGES ARABS TO BREAK AIR EMBARGO.(Brief Article)
- Iraqi Foreign Minister Muhammad Sa'id Al-Sahhaf has called on Arab leaders to break the air embargo on Iraq, AFP reported on 27 June. He said "we call on them to do that because such a move is part of their duty toward Iraq, which has always fou...
- Research articles 2000-07-03
- RUSSIAN EMBARGO.(European Union. European Commission)(Brief article)
- The European Commission is hoping for "rapid and substantive" discussions with Moscow in order to lift Russia's threat of an embargo on European animal products from 1 January, Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson told the press in Brussels o The European Commission is hoping for "rapid and...
- Research articles 2006-12-12
- IRAN: EU, WORLD BANK DEMAND IRAN ACT ON MONEY LAUNDERING.(European Union, World Bank threaten to place embargo on Iran's international bank transactions)(Brief Article)
- The European Union and the World Bank have warned they will place an embargo on Iran's international bank transactions if Tehran fails to fight money laundering effectively, according to Tehran's English-language "Iran Daily" on 21 April. W The European Union and the World Bank have warned...
- Research articles 2003-04-30
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