Recently I was about to purchase a Dell laptop (in Canada)
I was asked by the call centre sales person if I had any intention of "taking the computer out of the country?" I asked why she considered that to be "any of her business? " I was told that Dell computers could not be taken to certain countries such as Cuba because they could be used to make "weapons of mass destruction." She said that the question was a legal requirement. I asked her where she was located and was told Ottawa. I said that there is no such law in Canada and that she should consult her supervisor, because I would not answer her question. Her supervisor told her that if I did not answer they would not sell to me. I stated that I was much more concerned about an idiot like Bush having such weapons than I was about Castro.
I bought a Toshiba instead but I found it insulting that Dell would try to enforce USA trading with the enemy garbage in a soverign country.