School of Politics and International Relations

Dr Lee Jones, US, EU talk tough on Cambodia

18 November 2017

Preferential access to Cambodia’s biggest export market could be removed and senior government officials banned from doing business with U.S. companies in response to a court ordered dissolution of the country’s opposition. In a statement on Thursday, the EU suggested preferential access to its markets which Cambodia access on a preferential basis through the Everything But Arms (EBA) scheme could now be removed. QMUL’s Dr Lee Jones said the experience of similar sanctions in Myanmar demonstrated that while crippling for the sector, they had practically no effect on the regime itself.  
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