India sanctions

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India has historically and largely not supported sanctions imposed by individual countries.{{Cite web|last=Chauhan|first=Rishika|date=2014-12-15|title=Decoding India's Stand on International Sanctions|url=https://casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/chauhan|access-date=2022-02-25|website=Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI)|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Global Sanctions Guide - India|url=https://ezine.eversheds-sutherland.com/global-sanctions-guide/india/|publisher=Eversheds Sutherland}} The Government of India has largely supported United Nations sanctions. India has also been warned with sanctions, imposed with them, and has also imposed and threatened its own.

Sanctions imposed by India

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{{Flagicon|South Africa|1928}} South Africa

|1946{{En dash}}1993

|India was the first country to sanction South Africa for the apartheid.{{Cite web|title=India-South Africa Relations|url=https://www.mea.gov.in/Portal/ForeignRelation/India-SouthAfrica_Relations.pdf|website=Ministry of External Affairs}}

{{Flagicon|Fiji}} Fiji

|1989{{En dash}}1999

|Following deterioration of diplomatic ties India imposed a trade embargo.{{Cite book|last=Group|first=Taylor & Francis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wGA4o-UhAfgC&pg=PA1628|title=Europa World Year|date=2004-07-29|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-85743-254-1|pages=1628}}

Sanctions against India

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colspan="2" |{{Flagicon|Canada}} Canada

|1974

|Following 1974 nuclear tests Canada sanctioned nuclear expertise and equipment support.{{Cite book|last=Perkovich|first=George|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UDA9dUryS8EC|title=India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation|date=2001|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-23210-5|pages=186}}

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|{{Flagicon|USA}} United States

|1998{{En dash}}1999

|United States imposed sanctions as required by law following 1998 nuclear tests.{{Cite web|last=Wagner|first=Alex|title=Bush Waives Nuclear-Related Sanctions on India, Pakistan|url=https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2001-10/press-releases/bush-waives-nuclear-related-sanctions-india-pakistan|access-date=2022-02-25|website=|publisher=Arms Control Association}} Sanctions imposed by the United States were weakened through exceptions and lifted within a year.{{Cite web|last1=Morrow|first1=Daniel|last2=Carriere|first2=Michael|date=Fall 1999|title=The Economic Impacts of the 1998 Sanctions on India and Pakistan|url=https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/morrow64.pdf|publisher=The Nonproliferation Review}}

{{Flagicon|Japan}} Japan

|1998{{En dash}}2001

|Sanctions including the stoppage of loan aid.{{Cite web|last=Burns|first=John F.|date=14 May 1998|title=India Sets Off 2 More Nuclear Blasts; U.S. and Japan Impose Sanctions|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/051498india-nuke.html|access-date=2022-02-25|website=The New York Times}}{{Cite web|date=26 October 2001|title=Japan lifts India, Pakistan sanctions|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/10/26/japan.sanctions/index.html|access-date=2022-02-25|website=|publisher=CNN}}{{Cite web|date=26 October 2001|agency=PTI|title=Japan lifts sanctions on India, Pak|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20011027/main4.htm|access-date=2022-02-25|website=|publisher=The Tribune India|archive-date=4 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220504215056/https://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20011027/main4.htm|url-status=dead}}

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|Around 14 countries adopted some form of individual sanction or another following the 1998 nuclear tests with marginal effect.{{Cite book|last=Synnott|first=Hilary|url=|title=The Causes and Consequences of South Asia's Nuclear Tests|date=2020|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-06308-4|language=en}} Collective sanctions could not gather the required support.{{Cite book|last=Nayar|first=Baldev Raj|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Njn_SEtP5sC|title=India and the Major Powers After Pokharan II|date=2001|publisher=Har-Anand Publications|isbn=978-81-241-0799-7|pages=24–25}}

colspan="2" |{{Flagicon|United States}} United States

|1992{{En dash}}2011

|Indian Space Research Organisation was sanctioned for sections of its space program.{{Cite web|last=Laxman|first=Srinivas|date=6 January 2014|title=US sanctions on India: India overcame US sanctions to develop cryogenic engine|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-overcame-us-sanctions-to-develop-cryogenic-engine/articleshow/28449360.cms|access-date=2022-02-25|website=The Times of India}}{{Cite news|date=13 February 2011|title=Sanctions off; NASA lab asks ISRO to partner for moon mission|work=The Economic Times|agency=PTI|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/sanctions-off-nasa-lab-asks-isro-to-partner-for-moon-mission/articleshow/7488573.cms?from=mdr|access-date=2022-02-25}}

colspan="2" |{{Flagicon|Pakistan}} Pakistan

|2019

|Sanctions such as closure of airspace for all Indians following 2019 Balakot airstrike.{{Cite web|last=Khanna|first=Ambika|date=2020-04-30|title=Devising an Indian policy on Sanctions for Pakistan|url=https://www.gatewayhouse.in/indian-policy-sanctions-pakistan/|access-date=2022-02-25|website=Gateway House|language=en}}

References

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