Sweden sought to protect its sneaker business, and to do so invoked the claim that a domestic footwear industry was crucial to the country’s national defense. It’s a relatively famous case , one of the first big tests of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) tolerance for absurdity, and it used to be a funny footnote.
In the mid-1970s, when Bjorn Borg was still ascendant and ABBA was just starting to churn out hits, Sweden gained notoriety for something entirely different: wantonly abusing the national-security exception enshrined in international trade law.
In the mid-1970s, when Bjorn Borg was still ascendant and ABBA was just starting to churn out hits, Sweden gained notoriety for something entirely different: wantonl
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