You have a practically new red laptop, which you brought from the USA on a visit to your friend in Shanghai. Your friend admires it and asks where you got it. You offer it to your friend in exchange for their hospitality.
You have just committed a crime in China. China has protectionist trade barriers, designed to make people buy new stuff made in new Chinese factories. The USA Commerce Department, the WTO, and customs agencies around the world are constantly haggling over trade barriers, tariffs, and non-tariff trade barriers all around the world. NAFTA was formed in North America to try to ease them, but it hasn't really worked. The USA has a history with these as well, and many point to the Smoot-Hawley Act (increasing tariffs to create USA jobs) as the most likely cause of the Great Depression.
A non-tariff barrier is something created to act like a tariff but not to look like a tariff under a non-tariff agreement between two countries. Let's say China bans the color red. Just doesn't like it. It's a sovereign nation, can do this if it wants.
The question is whether if you sell a product that is banned in China, whether you have violated a USA law if someone from China buys your red product. You say "of course not?" Read on.
You have just committed a crime in China. China has protectionist trade barriers, designed to make people buy new stuff made in new Chinese factories. The USA Commerce Department, the WTO, and customs agencies around the world are constantly haggling over trade barriers, tariffs, and non-tariff trade barriers all around the world. NAFTA was formed in North America to try to ease them, but it hasn't really worked. The USA has a history with these as well, and many point to the Smoot-Hawley Act (increasing tariffs to create USA jobs) as the most likely cause of the Great Depression.
A non-tariff barrier is something created to act like a tariff but not to look like a tariff under a non-tariff agreement between two countries. Let's say China bans the color red. Just doesn't like it. It's a sovereign nation, can do this if it wants.
The question is whether if you sell a product that is banned in China, whether you have violated a USA law if someone from China buys your red product. You say "of course not?" Read on.