All this can and will disrupt trade and investment.
Tariffs on those goods would also disrupt trade right across the Asia Pacific region, said Pei.
They will almost certainly not go to war and they are generally reluctant to disrupt trade.
As a rule, countries should pursue these aims in ways that disrupt trade least.
But Federal officials fear this would disrupt trade, and have not made that demand.
The United States had argued that stricter labeling by the European Union would hurt competition, disrupt trade and alarm consumers unnecessarily.
New regimes can default on their debts, disrupt trade, go to war with their neighbors -- even sponsor terrorism.
Civil wars also disrupt trade and investment and leave large social legacies in unemployed former combatants and displaced individuals.
Britain's exit from the European Union threatens to disrupt trade and potentially reinvigorate conflict between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
But senior Federal food safety officials disagreed with that recommendation, arguing that "such mandatory authority would disrupt trade if implemented at one time," the report said.
Nations form a web of trading alliances, which creates financial incentive not only to keep peace with trading partners, but also to protect them from being attacked so as not to disrupt trade.
