Trade sanctions

The view that trade restrictions (trade sanctions) should be used as a tool to improve labor standards, limiting imports, for example, from countries that do not enforce such labor rights as freedom of association and collective bargaining.

Another important difference between trade sanctions and financial sanctions lies in the parties that are hurt by each. The pain from trade sanctions, especially export controls, usually is diffused throughout the target country's population.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Department of the Treasury, implements and enforces financial and trade sanctions.

Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) A bureau of the Treasury Department that administers economic and trade sanctions.

A department of the U.S. Treasury that enforces economic and trade sanctions against countries and groups of individuals involved in terrorism, narcotics and other disreputable activities.
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Office of Foreign Asset Control - OFAC
A department of the U.S. Treasury that enforces economic and trade sanctions against countries and groups of individuals involved in terrorism, narcotics and other disreputable activities.

Intellectual property rights
Smuggling Â- Competition policy
Government procurement
Outsourcing Â- Globalization
Fair trade Â- Trade justice
Emissions trading Â- Trade sanctions
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A multilateral agreement negotiated in 1988 to reduce and eventually eliminate the use of chlorofluorocarbons and halogens so as to prevent erosion of the ozone layer. The agreement is noteworthy for allowing the use of trade sanctions to enforce its ...

advocates of managed trade -- who argue that conventional trade agreements are ineffective in such an environment --is to set quantitative targets for imports or exports in various key industries, coupled with the use or threat of trade sanctions to ...

Court of Justice as the primary UN judicial organ) lack the capacity to penalise disobedience.[11] However, a few bodies, such as the WTO, have effective systems of binding arbitration and dispute resolution backed up by trade sanctions.[12] ...

See also: Tariff, Administration, Substitution, Banks, Free trade