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EU Threatens to Sue U.S. over New Restrictions on Cuba

HeadlineMay 03, 2019

The European Union is threatening to sue the United States in the World Trade Organization over the Trump administration’s move to allow U.S. nationals to sue any company that does business in Cuba using private property seized during the Cuban revolution. Carnival Cruise Line became the first U.S. company to be sued under a provision in the 1995 Helms-Burton Act, which went into effect on Thursday.

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