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Comment by dralley

17 days ago

>they just avoided having to write one-off exceptions.

They did do one-off exceptions though. They excluded Iran, North Korea, and Russia from the list.

Do we have any appreciable trade with them? I would have thought existing sanctions packages approved by congress would supersede this.

  • 3 billion USD apparently. lots smaller than in the past, but still bigger than quite a few countries that did get listed.