Cuba: Trump Extends 'Trading With the Enemy Act' Another Year

Responding via Twitter, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez wrote: "Trump extends for another year the Trading With the Enemy Act that sustains the blockade against Cuba. The blockade and harassment intensify, cruelty and perversity grow. An inhuman and cruel blockade. But here, nobody gives up."

The Trading With the Enemy Act is an instrument of the U.S. administration approved by Congress more than a century ago, which is currently only applied to Cuba. However, countries such as China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Vietnam have also been subject to its application in the past.

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"I hereby determine that the continuation of the exercise of those authorities with respect to Cuba for one year is in the national interest of the United States," the memorandum for the Secretaries of Treasury and State, published on the White House website, declares.

After the Act was first applied to Cuba, further hostile measures followed, including the announcement of the U.S. blockade against Cuba in 1962 by John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, adopted in 1963.