• Embargoes are international trade restrictions adopted in response to undesirable policies.
  • Embargoes are more effective in punishing the countries they target than in forcing them to change their behavior.
  • The US embargo has had a similar effect, prohibiting trade with Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Syria, as well as trade restrictions on Russia and Russian-occupied Ukraine.
  • The US faced the Arab oil embargo in 1973-1974 because of Israel’s support.