Restrictions on travel to Cuba have been a key and often contentious component in U.S. efforts to isolate the communist government of Fidel Castro for much of the past 40 years. Over time, there have been numerous changes to the restrictions, and for five years, from 1977 until 1982, there were no restrictions on travel to Cuba. Under the Bush Administration, enforcement of U.S. restrictions on Cuba travel has increased, and restrictions on travel and on private remittances to Cuba have been tightened. In March 2003, the Administration eliminated travel for people-to-people educational exchanges unrelated to academic coursework. In June 2004, the Administration further restricted family and educational travel and eliminated the category of fully-hosted travel. At the same time, remittances were further restricted so that they could only be sent to the remitters immediate family. In the second session of the 108th Congress, several FY2005 appropriations bills Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, and State, and Transportation/Treasury had provisions that would have eased Cuba sanctions, including on travel and remittances, but ultimately these provisions were not included in the FY2005 omnibus appropriations measure (H.R. 4818, H.Rept. 108-792). The Administration had threatened to veto both the Transportation/Treasury and Agriculture appropriations measures if they had provisions weakening Cuba sanctions. In the 109th Congress, several legislative initiatives have been introduced that would ease restrictions on travel and remittances to Cuba. Two bills have been introduced, S. 894 (Enzi) and H.R. 1814 (Flake), that would specifically lift overall restrictions on travel to Cuba. Two additional bills, H.R. 208 (Serrano) and H.R. 579 (Paul), would lift the overall embargo on trade and financial transactions with Cuba, including restrictions on travel and remittances to Cuba. Finally, two identical bills dealing with easing restrictions on exporting agricultural commodities to Cuba, H.R. 719 (Moran of Kansas) and S. 328 (Craig), include provisions that provide for a general license for travel transactions related to the marketing and sale of agricultural products, as opposed to the current requirement of a specific license for such travel transactions. This report will be updated to reflect major developments.


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    Titel :

    Cuba: U.S. Restrictions on Travel and Remittances (Updated May 10, 2005)


    Beteiligte:
    M. P. Sullivan (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2005


    Format / Umfang :

    27 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch