Americans once again able to legally smoke Cuban cigars

US President Barack Obama has unveiled a new round of relaxed trade rules, including lifting limits on rum and cigar imports from Cuba.

Obama said in a statement that the new policy directive laid out an official framework for continuing normalisation of relations with the island nation despite the US Congress not yet lifting the 50-year-old US trade embargo on Cuba.

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