 Later, the United States federal government imposed broad sanctions against Burma under several different legislative and policy vehicles.The Burma Freedom and Democracy Act (BFDA), passed by both the US Senate and their House of Representatives and signed by then President George W. Bush in 2003, imposed a ban on all imports from Myanmar, a ban on the export of financial services to Myanmar, a freeze on the assets of certain Burmese financial institutions, alongside further visa restrictions against Burmese officials.American legislators then renewed the BFDA on an almost annual basis, most recently in July 2010.