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Article: Economic sanctions: an emerging business menace.
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- Business Economics
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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Use of various kinds of economic sanctions has a long history, even in the United States. Some prime twentieth century examples include our oil sanctions against Japan in the early 1940s, various measures against the Soviet bloc, and the continuing embargoes of Cuba and Iran. Importantly, in the past two decades our use of sanctions has increased substantially. Further, these sanctions are increasingly unilateral in nature. The United States is clearly the world's most active sanctions-imposing country, much to the detriment of our firms that participate in world markets.
Recent trends are eye opening. In the four-year period spanning 1993-96, there were "61 laws and ...