EVEN amidst this current era of free trade, the world still sometimes seems to be as small as a little village. Find this hard to believe? Just take a look at the recent uproar over imported shrimp. It all started with the US governments anti-dumping policy against the following six countries: Thailand, China, Vietnam, Ecuador, India, and Brazil.

The sanctions that began on January 1 this year were the result of lobbying by two fishermens associat