Title Iii and Helms-Burton Act

act: Washington recently activated Title III of the Helms-Burton Act to tighten sanctions against Havana, according to Global Times China. The Title III of the Helms-Burton Act allows for lawsuits to be filed in US courts against companies operating on properties the Cuban government seized after the year 1959. The Cuban government will enforce every kind of guarantee within the national legal framework to shelter foreign companies from possible fallout after US application of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, said Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca at a meeting with foreign businessmen and diplomats. It had been suspended by every US president since 1996. The latest US move was met with wide opposition from the European Union and Canada, whose companies have billions of dollars of investments in Cuba. The Cuban government has reiterated on several occasions that foreign companies have total legal security under the protection of the Law 118 of Foreign Investment which defends mutually advantageous investments. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.