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...then, in 1991, trade came crashing in. Mexico brought an action against the U.S. under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (the WTO's predecessor). It claimed that American environmental law prohibiting the import of tuna from countries that killed too many dolphins violated international trade rules. And Mexico won. All those hours environmentalists had spent trudging through the corridors of Capitol Hill on behalf of dolphins had been undermined, overnight, by a far-off tribunal...
...Even though we're not landing as much fish aswe used to in our ports, we're continuing toprocess fish and ship fish around the world,"Furtado says. "We're looking to develop our harborso that we can import, export and process fishmore efficiently...
Holton says one issue of Daedalus in particular, in which the magazine focused on arms control during the Cold War era, exemplifies the journal as a medium through which intellectuals can voice their ideas and differences on matters of national import...
...shocked its northern neighbor by winning the World Cup. Canadians began to rethink their national plan (More funding? A youth movement? Abandon NAFTA?), but what really upset them was learning that hardly anyone in the U.S. even knew about the contest. It's one thing to import Canadian NHL teams to southern U.S. cities, steal SCTV guys for SNL, infringe on fishing rights, but to beat them at their own sport? This could get ugly...
Since that date, the import of illegally acquired archaeological artifacts--whether taken into the U.S. by looters themselves or by dealers--has been illegal...