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Azza Air Transport, former Cargo airline, in the SDN List. The Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List, also known as the SDN List, is a United States government sanctions/embargo measure targeting U.S.-designated terrorists, officials and beneficiaries of certain authoritarian regimes, and international criminals (e.g. drug traffickers).
List of sanctioned countries (the below is not an exhaustive list): [87] Afghanistan sanctions by the US [88] China by the EU and the US. Sanctions made on arms embargo, enacted in response to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 [89] European Union arms embargo on the People's Republic of China; Hong Kong, enacted in response to the National ...
After the failure of the Embargo Act of 1807, the federal government of the United States took little interest in imposing embargoes and economic sanctions against foreign countries until the 20th century. United States trade policy was entirely a matter of economic policy. After World War I, interest revived.
An economic sanction could cripple the targeted country's industries. For example, if a targeted country's industry gets sanctioned for a prolonged period of time, it can bring effects such as unemployment and industry collapse to the targeted industry. [17] A real life example would be the U.S's sanction on Venezuela's oil industry.
The U.S. Treasury Department submitted the draft sanctions list in recent days to the State Department, the people said, adding the number of individuals to be sanctioned could change.
Countries and territories on the list have imposed or joined sanctions against Russia. [35] Western countries and others began imposing limited sanctions on Russia when it recognised the independence of self-declared Donbass republics. With the commencement of attacks on 24 February, a large number of other countries began applying sanctions ...
The United States has piled dozens of new sanctions on the Communist-run country since a trade embargo was put in place following Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, most recently under former ...
United States sanctions against China; Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act; Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010; Congo River Alliance; Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act; United States embargo against Cuba; Cuban Democracy Act