Subverting the embargo is really easy, if expensive. A lot of Cuban cigars are wrapped with tobacco from Connecticut... which is exported to an intermediary, then shipped to Cuba. Cuba then ships back to intermediary and they sell through there and restamp them as product of X and send them to the States. The channels for that are really well set up. All it does at this point is line pockets of intermediaries.
It's probably one of the most poorly enforced embargoes out there. I would be so happy if we just stopped kidding ourselves that its working.
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Subverting the embargo is really easy, if expensive. A lot of Cuban cigars are wrapped with tobacco from Connecticut... which is exported to an intermediary, then shipped to Cuba. Cuba then ships back to intermediary and they sell through there and restamp them as product of X and send them to the States. The channels for that are really well set up. All it does at this point is line pockets of intermediaries.
It's probably one of the most poorly enforced embargoes out there. I would be so happy if we just stopped kidding ourselves that its working.