<P> Trade relations also deteriorated in equal measure . In 1962 , President John F. Kennedy broadened the partial trade restrictions imposed after the revolution by Eisenhower to a ban on all trade with Cuba , except for non-subsidized sale of foods and medicines . A year later travel and financial transactions by U.S. citizens with Cuba was prohibited . The United States embargo against Cuba was to continue in varying forms . </P>
when did the us cut off trade with cuba
1962