Getting Trade Embargos to End

[Virginian Gent]

I was playing the Netherlands in the Age of Revolutions scenario and most of my income (over 300 ducats a month) is derived from my onopposed monopolies in Jakarta and Bombay, and my slightly opposed monopoly in Isfehan. However, just recently, persia declared a trade embargo and are slowly re-gaining their COT. This isnt a too substantial lose, but still causes me to lose some revenue. So how can I stop the embargo? (I also want to stop an embargo if one is placed on me by England as quickly as possible as half of my trading income comes from Bombay) the game presents it as if you declaring war on a country causes the embargo to end, but I know from prior experience that this is not the case. So how do you stop it, aside from annexing the nation/taking the CoT province, especially through peaceful means? Gifts?


thanks

 

[Sindai]

Had this happen to me in a hands-off game as Nippon, I had a major monopoly in Tianjin, richest CoT in the world, and China embargoed me! I spent the entire rest of the game (290+ years) gaining relations and marriages and alliances with China. I must have spent the last 250 years with a 200+ relations with China, and they still never took the embargo off me. Yech.

 

[unmerged(2609)]

You get rid of a trade embargo by declaring war. I don't know if it stays off regardless of the outcome of the war, but that's what you do.

A trade embargo gives you a casus belli, so it's a free ticket to blast them, since you don't lose any stability for the DoW, and you get only one BB point (zero if they are non-European).

There's another thread where someone discusses strategies for inducing a trade embargo as a means of getting a free war.

bruce