Trade Sanctions: A Minor Hindrance or Complete Disaster

Johan Van Rooyen; Amrita Nath

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Trade Sanctions: A Minor Hindrance or Complete Disaster

Johan Van Rooyen, Amrita Nath

Published in International Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (Volume 8, Issue 3)

Received: 14 May 2019 Accepted: 17 September 2019 Published: 26 October 2020

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Abstract

This paper looks into the impacts trade sanctions have on a country, in particular the economic and financial impacts. The question raised is whether trade sanctions indeed have impact of reducing the economic welfare of a country and if so to what capability? Two cases of trade sanctions have been examined: UN sanctions on Iraq and US sanctions in Iran. The analysis suggests that the despite affecting the economy of the target country, the extent to which it impacts in damaging the economic and financial resources depends upon the type and severity of the sanction. In Iraq, the complete comprehensive multilateral trade sanction crippled its economy and financial pushing it into a state of grave fiscal and humanitarian crisis. In Iran, the unilateral trade sanctions imposed by US in the form of trade barriers, has impacted by the country but economic and financial growth continues with Iran’s other trading partners.

Published in	International Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (Volume 8, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijebo.20200803.14
Page(s)	74-80
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sanctions, Financial Impact, Iraq, Trade Barriers

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Johan Van Rooyen

Department of Business and Technology, Webster University, Cha-am, Thailand
Amrita Nath

Department of Business and Technology, Webster University, Cha-am, Thailand

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