Dealing with this trade embargo is certainly a learning curve - as I know from personal experience.

The international trade embargo on Iraq, now in its sixth year, is not easy to maintain.

"But even if there is a full trade embargo, it will not make that much difference."

An American trade embargo is seen as having relatively little effect.

Washington's 39-year-old trade embargo has scarcely helped their cause, and a fresh new American approach is surely needed.

How near is the end of the trade embargo with Cuba?

Such an agreement would not permit a trade embargo on Israel.

But Washington's trade embargo would now prevent the company from exploiting the field.

"We think the trade embargo is an abnormal thing in relations between nations," he said.

It also began trying to tighten the trade embargo in effect since 1960.