Illegal to do business with Cubans?

[giuliamonique]

I'm self employed, my job is photo retouching. I have a potential client in Cuba but because of the Embargo act they cannot pay me through paypal. My bank said it's possible for them to do a wire transfer and they gave me an international routing number I could give him. I informed them about my self employment and that he's from Cuba and all seemed fine but a friend of mine whos a business man says that as far as he knew it was illegal to do business with Cuba. Can anyone enlighten me with some information?

[Doug Nelson]

Unless the work is for humanitarian reasons, you can face up to 10 years in prison and thousands of dollars in fines. This is assuming you're a US citizen.

[giuliamonique]

Arg... guess I'll have to pass this client up. Atleast I got a bit of an education from having to look into all of this.

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[ExclamPt]

Don't get me started about the Cuban embargo...

[synthetamine]

set up a PO box in canada.

oh yeh, is necro-posting bad?

[Doug Nelson]

Originally Posted by synthetamine

oh yeh, is necro-posting bad?

Not bad, per se, I just want people to think twice about it. That's why I don't block it, I just add an extra step.