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Article: Embargo time. (trade embargo against Nicaragua)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- May 17, 1985
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IT MAY SURPRISE readers to learn that Nicaragua's number-one trading partner is still the United States. We export about $116.6 million worth of goods to Nicaragua annually and pay out about $105.6 million for goods that Nicaraguan sends here. Though the volume of U.S.-Nicaraguan trade has been reduced during the past few months, it is still more than twice the volume of trade between Nicaragua and its Communist allies. We supply many of the goods the Sandinistas are using to strengthen their military machine, including $10.1 million worth of lubricating oil, $10.3 million worth of tractor parts, more than $500,000 worth of track-laying equipment, and more than $250,000 ...