import ban

Blocked foreign goods

An import ban is a government prohibition on bringing certain goods into a country.

Bans may target specific products for health, safety, or environmental reasons an import ban on ivory, or restrict trade with particular nations as economic sanctions The import ban on Cuban goods lasted decades.

Also called an embargo when applied broadly to a country.

embargoOfficial prohibition on trade
economic sanctionsPunitive international trade restrictions
tradeExchange of commodities
sanctionsPunitive international restrictions
customsTraditional practices or import taxes

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Categories

prohibitionsforbid, prohibition, forbidden, prohibit, outlawing
restrictionslimits, limit, restrictions, restriction, rules
economic policymonetary policy, tax policy, fiscal discipline, fiscal stimulus, fiscal restraint
Cold War economicsMarshall Plan, containment policy, economic sanctions, trade embargo, arms race
economic controlstariff, quota, sanction, embargo, trade restriction
embargoestrade embargo, oil embargo, arms embargo, economic embargo, weapons embargo

Opposites

trade restriction vs. trade facilitation

import banfree trade

Unrestricted international exchange

open market · free trade zone · free trade agreement · import license · trade agreement

import vs. export direction

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Restriction on outbound goods

export controls

severity of trade restriction

import bantariff

Tax on traded goods

import duty · import tariff · trade barrier · customs duty

Family

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