No it doesn’t and no it doesn’t. The embargo only affects trade from the United States, the US does not prevent Cuba trading with other countries, and even the American embargo has an exception for food since the 2000 Trade Sanctions Reform Act: currently the US sells about $150 million of food to Cuba per year.
The Cuban embargo is stupid and harmful and needs to be ended, but please get your facts right. It’s an embargo with one country, not a blockade.
US has a regime of secondary sanctions to go after non-US entities who trade with sanctions targets, and it is difficult to prove that all you are trading with a sanctions target is approved goods under strict liability, and financiers and other potential intermediaries will not want to work with you. Going from the FT:
US primary sanctions prohibit US companies (including their non-US branches) as well as citizens, green-card holders and non-US entities owned or controlled by US persons, from doing business with Iran and Cuba. But the applicability of US secondary sanctions against Iran and Cuba is more complex, says Ms Catrain, as these apply to any company in the world that wants to do any business in the US.
“Secondary sanctions effectively forbid EU companies from doing certain business with Iran or Cuba — even if the goods or technology are not subject to US law.”
Recovering pretentious asshole.
That said, I'm still a movie snob and no one will take that away from me!
90% of my stuff is horror, pokemon, and funny animals.
The remaining 10% is ndn/Caddo rage.
