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Discover LudwigThe phrase "trade embargo" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a government-imposed restriction on trade with another country. For example: "The trade embargo imposed by the United States on Cuba has been in place for decades."
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Our 40-year trade embargo achieves nothing.
Russia's agricultural trade embargo with the EU is also real.
But implementing a trade embargo would hurt its neighbours too.
After that, the EU might reconsider the trade embargo.
"People were starving because of the trade embargo," she says.
FOR almost half a century, the United States has imposed a trade embargo against Cuba.
The Treasury Department, which oversees the trade embargo with Cuba, was similarly flummoxed.
Despite a U.S. trade embargo and numerous assassination attempts, Castro has outlived 9 U.S. Presidents.
Since 1979 its economy has staggered under inflation, war and now a unilateral US trade embargo.
America first imposed a trade embargo in 1986, accusing Libya of sponsoring terrorism.
A wartime trade embargo had cut off many European markets for British textiles.
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