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COPYRIGHT 2001 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: Alfredo Corchado
Feb. 21--WASHINGTON, D.C.--The U.S. trade embargo has had a minimal impact on the American economy, but has forced the Cuban government to use creative ways to seek imports from unlikely sources for desperately needed imports like medicine, tires and even baseballs.
The much-awaited 390-page report by the U.S International Trade Commission, which was submitted recently to a congressional committee, confirmed what experts have been saying for years, that the embargo has a magnified impact on a small, poor island than it does on the world's largest economy.
Overall, U.S. sanctions have cost Americans less than $1 billion in exports, according to the most comprehensive federal study...
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