Cuban cigars?

Question

why are they illegal in the us?

Answer 1

theyre illegal due to trade regulations

Answer 2

The United States Embargo Against Cuba (described in Cuba as el bloqueo, Spanish for "the blockade") is an economic, commercial, and financial embargo imposed on Cuba on February 7, 1962. The embargo was enacted after Cuba expropriated the properties of United States citizens and corporations (notably those that belonged to the United Fruit Company and the ITT).

The embargo was codified into law in 1992 with the stated purpose of "bringing democracy to the Cuban people", and in fact is entitled the Cuban Democracy Act. In 1996 Congress passed the Helms-Burton Act which further restricted United States citizens from doing business in or with Cuba, and mandated restrictions on giving public or private assistance to any successor regime in Havana unless and until certain claims against the Cuban government are met. In 1999, U.S. President Bill Clinton expanded the trade embargo even further by ending the practice of foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies trading with Cuba totaling more than US$700 million a year.

At present, the embargo, which limits American businesses from conducting business with Cuban interests, is still in effect, making it one of the few times in history that United States citizens have been restricted from doing business abroad, and is the most enduring trade embargo in modern history. Despite the existence of the embargo, the United States is the seventh largest exporter to Cuba (4.3% of Cuba's imports are from the US).

Answer 3

That would have to do with the Trade Embargo that started way back in 1962 when President John F. Kennedy established a trade embargo against Cuba to sanction Fidel Castro's communist regime, and then began to confiscate private property and other assets (including cigar companies).

Shortly after the failed Bay of Pigs incident on July 8, 1963 the United States government issued the Cuban Assets Control Regulations under the Trading with the Enemy Act. From that day forward it was illegal to bring into this country, cigars that were manufactured in Cuba. These sanctions describe clearly that trade with Cuba in any form or fashion by United States individuals or corporations were against the law.

This is interesting too: Pierre Salinger, the press secretary to then President John F. Kennedy, reported that the night before the embargo was enacted into law, the President had him go to local tobacconists and purchase 1000 Cuban cigars for his own use. Salinger reportedly purchased 1200 cigars for the President.

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Answer 4

bcz U.S. doesn't want to do business with Cuba