U.S. and European Sanctions on Syria
... started in 2011 and has continued to the present, that U.S. policymakers stated was a response to the Syrian civil war. The European Union began to impose sanctions starting in 2011 as Syria’s civil war broke out, and the EU has escalated sanctions ... ... third-country trade with Syria. U.S. secondary sanctions on Syria were comparatively limited until late 2019, when Congress passed the Caesar Act. However, secondary sanctions remain more limited than primary sanctions. Main categories of secondary sanctions are ...