{"id":2180,"date":"1962-05-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1962-05-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/cms\/?p=2180"},"modified":"1962-05-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1962-05-24T00:00:00","slug":"2545241962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1962\/05\/24\/2545241962\/","title":{"rendered":"5\/24\/1962"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u2026The United States unilaterally revoked Cuba\u2019s \u2018Most Favored Nation\u2019 status and the previously agreed preference under the Exclusive Supplemental Agreement to the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs, to which both countries were signatories. The instrument used for this action was the Department of the Treasury\u2019s Decision 55636 of 13 June 1961, in effect since 24 May 1962. Section 401 of the Tariff Classification Act of 1962\u2026denied Cuba the Most Favored Nation (MFN) status in trade and canceled the applicability of tariff preferences for Cuba for as long as the MFN status was suspended\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;John F. Kennedy (D). Timeline,\u201d Cuba versus Blockade: Cuban People\u2019s website,\u00a02007<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u2026The United States unilaterally revoked Cuba\u2019s \u2018Most Favored Nation\u2019 status and the previously agreed preference under the Exclusive Supplemental Agreement to the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs, to which both countries were signatories. The instrument used for this action was the Department of the Treasury\u2019s Decision 55636 of 13 June 1961, in effect since [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1962\/05\/24\/2545241962\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from 5\/24\/1962<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2247,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1975\/01\/03\/331131975\/","url_meta":{"origin":2180,"position":0},"title":"1\/3\/1975","author":"AmarkData","date":"January 3, 1975","format":false,"excerpt":"\"03.01.75 Passage of the Trade Act of 1974, whose Title IV reinforced the restrictions on the tariff treatment to communist countries and provided that in order to grant MFN [Most Favoured Nation] status to such countries, the President [Gerald Ford] must certify that free migration is allowed and that certain\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2175,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1962\/02\/19\/2492191962\/","url_meta":{"origin":2180,"position":1},"title":"2\/19\/1962","author":"AmarkData","date":"February 19, 1962","format":false,"excerpt":"\"19.02.62 Walt W. Rostow and Richard Goodwin, both State Department officers, visited Europe urging their NATO allies to impose trade restrictions to Cuba. Mr. Rostow asked NATO [North Atlanic Treaty Organization] Council to eliminate Western Europe\u2019s military and strategic trade with Cuba and to cut back non-strategic transactions with the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2195,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1962\/10\/16\/27010161962\/","url_meta":{"origin":2180,"position":2},"title":"10\/16\/1962","author":"AmarkData","date":"October 16, 1962","format":false,"excerpt":"\"16.10.62 The U.S. Institute of Merchant Marine requested an emergency meeting to the International Chamber of Shipping in London to consider an official trade embargo on Cuba.\u201d \"John F. 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