{"id":389513,"date":"2010-03-04T08:40:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T13:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtradelaw.typepad.com\/ielpblog\/2010\/03\/trade-and-censorship-marijuana-and-abortion.html"},"modified":"2010-03-04T08:40:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T13:40:19","slug":"trade-and-censorship-marijuana-and-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/389513","title":{"rendered":"Trade and … Censorship, Marijuana and Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"

It's not a sophisticated legal analysis, but I found this blogger's points<\/a> to be interesting in terms of how non-specialists see the scope of trade rules:<\/p>\n

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When business people are in doubt, they can always claim unfair trade in order to tap government diplomats and the WTO. However, there are certain areas of trade which simply conflict with a country\u2019s critical laws and culture.<\/p>\n

In this case, China asserts censorship is a critical part of government. This is the same as the US holding strong to federal trade laws prohibiting the sale of marijuana. There are certain countries which disagree with US policy, but that doesn\u2019t mean they have a slam dunk case with the WTO.<\/p>\n

Imagine for a moment a company from China which sold home abortion kits. Clearly, the US government would oppose the sale of them in the US. Imagine the Chinese company claiming abortions are a human right for women. Uncle Sam holds firm, \u201cNo.\u201d What if the company switched gears and claimed they had a right to sell the kits in the US under fair trade laws promulgated by the WTO? I think we can all see this case is still headed for failure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It's not a sophisticated legal analysis, but I found this blogger's points to be interesting in terms of how non-specialists see the scope of trade rules: When business people are in doubt, they can always claim unfair trade in order to tap government diplomats and the WTO. However, there are certain areas of trade which simply […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}