Indeed, many may feel that such disputes intrude too far on national sovereignty, and thus refuse to accept that international trade rules should trump domestic political considerations.

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Some officials even muse privately about nuclear contacts with India, despite the global rules that ban nuclear help for and trade with countries that, like India and Pakistan, refuse to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or else reject full international safeguards on their nuclear industry.

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Pominville has a partial no-trade clause in his contract and appears to have handed a list of teams he'd refuse to play for to general manager Darcy Regier.

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