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.

ECONOMIST: At daggers drawn

What use are trade rules if the world's big economies refuse to abide by them?

ECONOMIST: Scrapped | The

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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