trade ban
Blocked international exchange
A trade ban is an official prohibition on commercial exchange with a particular country, entity, or in specific goods.
Governments impose trade bans as economic pressure or punishment: The trade ban on luxury goods aimed to cut off regime funding.
Also called an embargo when applied broadly to a nation.
- embargoOfficial prohibition on trade
- arms embargoBan on military exports
- sanctionsPunitive international restrictions
- economic sanctionsPunitive international trade restrictions
- blockadeSealing off a place
no-fly zone · prohibition · restriction · export controls · boycott · customs · smuggling · black market · contraband · illicit goods · gray market · imports · exports · supply chain · enforcement · violation · circumvention · retaliation
- tradecustoms, commerce, export, exports, quotas
- prohibitionsforbid, prohibition, forbidden, prohibit, outlawing
- restrictionslimits, limit, restrictions, restriction, rules
- Cold War economicsMarshall Plan, containment policy, economic sanctions, arms race, economic warfare
- Cuba-US RelationsCuban embargo, Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs, normalization, rapprochement
- economic controlstariff, quota, sanction, embargo, price control
trade banfree trade
Unrestricted international exchange
open trade · free market · trade agreement · trade deal · open market
trade banfree trade agreement
Treaty eliminating tariffs between nations
globalization · economic integration · laissez-faire · trade partnership · economic cooperation
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