Trade embargo

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A trade embargo by one country against another is a kind of unilateral diplomatic agreement that denies the embargoed country most trade income related to the embargoing country.

Creating Trade Embargoes

A trade embargo is created by a diplomatic action between two countries. The option requires trade tech of at least level 4, and is not available if there is currently a trade agreement between them. Also, an AI country cannot embargo a country it has a truce with.

Embargoing is unilateral; there is no change of failure. Immediately upon imposing an embargo, the following effects apply to the country imposing it:

• it loses 1 point of stability, unless it is at war with the target country
• relations with the target country decrease by 25 points.
• relations with all other countries of the target's state religion decrease by 10 points.

AIs will usually embargo countries they are at war with. If they are not at war, an AI will embargo a second country only after it sends a merchant to a center of trade owned by the AI country (regardless of the success or failure of the send). However, this is not automatic. Here are some factors which seem to increase the risk of being embargoed by an AI:

• the AI file (a factor determines the 'mind' of the country about embargoes)
• your badboy; the higher it is, the more likely an embargo
• sending many merchants at a time in the same CoT
• getting a monopoly in the AI's CoT

Effects of Trade Embargoes

When one country has embargoed a second country (the target), the following effects apply:

• the target country cannot send any more merchants the CoTs owned by the embargoing country.
• the target country gets no trade income from CoTs owned by the embargoing country.
• the target country doesn't get trade income from other CoTs, that is generated trade coming from provinces owned by the embargoing country. For example, if the embargoing country's provinces represent 25% of the trade value of a given CoT, the target country will only get 75% of its normal share of the trade.
• the target country gets a permanent casus belli against the embargoing country.
• the embargoing country may get a direct disinvestment to its trade tech. The amount is -1d/month for each embargo above the allowance determined by the country's mercantilism domestic policy.

Lifting Embargoes

There are only two ways for a country to get an embargo lifted. The country which imposed it may do so as a diplomatic action. (The AI only does so rarely, and only when the target has no merchants remaining in its CoT(s).)

Embargoes are also lifted automatically whenever a target country wins any war against the embargoing country. See the article on war for the exact definition of winning.