{"id":224135,"date":"2020-07-09T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=224135"},"modified":"2020-07-09T14:20:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T18:20:24","slug":"u-s-government-sanctions-amazon-for-selling-to-cuban-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/u-s-government-sanctions-amazon-for-selling-to-cuban-embassy\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. government sanctions Amazon for selling to Cuban embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Amazon and the United States<\/a> Government reached an agreement this Wednesday that the company will pay 134,523 dollars as a penalty for having bypassed the prohibitions on maintaining commercial ties with various countries and diplomatic entities, including the Cuban embassy.<\/p>\n

The company based in Seattle, the United States, provided its services and sold its products to people who were in countries or regions with which the government prohibits maintaining commercial ties without prior authorization, or with people employed by embassies of these countries.<\/p>\n

According to a Department of the Treasury release, Amazon sold to individuals in Iran, Syria and Crimea (annexed by Russia) and to others who were employed by the embassies of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria, despite such operations being prohibited with all of them.<\/p>\n

Given these violations of the law, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (dependent on the Treasury) and the firm that Jeff Bezos leads started conversations that finally resulted this Wednesday in the agreement by which Amazon will pay the government 134,523 dollars.<\/p>\n

Lawsuit against Amazon under Helms-Burton Act dismissed<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n