just wanted to know!
2006-08-02 11:06:00 · 15 answers · asked by Kathryn 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Investing
They are a Communist country so in the 60's we established an embargo against them. The embargo prevents us from trading with them, flying to their airports and many other activities involving them.
2006-08-02 11:09:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
From the other posts, you know that the US has had a trade embargo with Cuba since the early 1960s. So -- it isn't just Cuban Cigars that can't be bought -- but Cuban products of any kind.
Pre-Castro Cuban cigars are still legal. The day before he announced the embargo, Kennedy sent his press secretary on a mission. He told him to buy up as many Cuban cigars as possible. Below is a link to an article about it. Pierre Salinger bought 1200 Cuban Cigars for Kennedy that night.
2006-08-03 02:19:54 · answer #2 · answered by Ranto 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The cigar became inextricably intertwined with political history on February 7, 1962, when United States President John F. Kennedy, intending to sanction Fidel Castro's communist government, imposed a trade embargo on Cuba.
2006-08-02 11:11:31 · answer #3 · answered by Bob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The US has had a trade embargo on Cuban goods since the early 1960's.
2006-08-02 15:39:38 · answer #4 · answered by TJ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trade embargo
You still can get legal Cubans in San Diego.
2006-08-02 11:10:22 · answer #5 · answered by Judas Rabbi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because of the trade embargo with cuban that makes trade illegal
2006-08-02 11:09:22 · answer #6 · answered by meanblacktiger 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They aren't once you take off the little Cuban ring and replace it with a Dominican Republic.
2006-08-02 11:13:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is because we have a trade embargo against Cuba.
2006-08-02 11:13:10 · answer #8 · answered by no nickname 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the US has a trade embargo with cuba meaning that nothing can be imported from or exported to cuba
2006-08-02 11:10:05 · answer #9 · answered by deepbushhunter69 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
trade embargoes to the US from Cuba
2006-08-02 11:10:16 · answer #10 · answered by m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋