Senior administration officials secretly facilitated Cause_to_make_progress the sale of arms to Iran , which was the subject of an arms embargo .

Captain Charles Elliot was the chief superintendent of British trade in China , and he sailed Self_motion to Kowloon in the cutter `` Louisa '' for food supplies Supply during the embargo Process_end , accompanied by the schooner `` Pearl '' and a pinnace from HMS `` Volage '' .

The skirmish Hostile_encounter was the first armed Bearing_arms conflict Hostile_encounter of the First Opium War Hostile_encounter and occurred Presence when British boats opened Process_start fire Use_firearm on Chinese war junks enforcing Action a food sales Commerce_sell embargo Process_end on the British community .

Following the 1993 trade embargo on UNITA there were frequent `` sanction Preventing_or_letting busting '' flights out of Zaire .