"It is not that Cannes is the enemy of Hollywood or the M.P.A.A.," said Mr. Frodon, referring to the Motion Picture Association of America, the lobbying group formed by the major studios that has long sought to strike down the tariffs and quotas that France has imposed against foreign producers.
On Thursday, NYC street vendors marched in protest what they describe as unfair fines the city has imposed against them by The New York Police Department.
Visa, meanwhile, agreed to suspend or rescind various fines it had imposed against Fifth Third, TJX's card processor.
Brazil, for its part, was threatening to take Argentina to the World Trade Organisation over the import quotas it had imposed against "dumped" textile exports.But hysteria has given way to common sense.
This month, however, I have submitted a written question in the Commons asking for an estimate of the lost revenue to the UK from the sanctions we have imposed against Russia both in terms of lost foreign direct investment and a loss of British exports.
A spokesman for the Bureau of Industry and Security, a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce, confirmed to us that there are currently five countries that the U.S. has imposed embargoes against: Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, and Sudan.
The UN Security Council has imposed sanctions against North Korea for its nuclear tests and long-range rocket launches dating back to 2006, banning arms trade and money flow that can fund the country's arms program.
Since 1966, the Security Council has imposed sanctions against a number of countries, in the 1960's intervened militarily in Congo, and in 1990 authorized the use of force against Iraq, which had invaded Kuwait.
And yet despite the cultural, social and historical heritage of Iranian women, the Islamic Republic has imposed discriminatory regulations against them.
Although American interests, tightly conceived, may not be much implicated in Ukraine, Obama has taken the lead in creating a Western bloc that has imposed intensifying sanctions against Putin's regime.
The US has imposed economic sanctions against several North Korean government agencies and senior officials in retaliation for the country's alleged role in hacking Sony Pictures' systems and threatening US moviegoers.
