These ongoing heated exchanges, in addition to recently imposed US tariffs on Mexican steel and aluminium imports, have complicated the ongoing attempts by the US, Canada and Mexico to renegotiate the North America Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).
But in August 2009, nine months after sanctions were finally imposed, US diplomats wrote: "We continue to see reporting indicating that JUD is still operating in multiple locations in Pakistan and that the group continues to openly raise funds".
She adds: "Reserves were imposed on us to restrict our movement and our claim to the land.
"We were the only movie theater in New York City not given first-run movies for some seven years (injustice), a policy imposed on us to close us down.
"He didn't want to impose on us to get him a toothbrush," she said.
Not to mention the severe restrictions they impose on us to enter and leave our own borders, restrictions that evoke the airport checkpoints where they detain illegals.
"We did it because it's in the air, but it's not an air people imposed to us," Mr Lagerfeld said.
But Prince Bandar told a visitor to his home late one recent evening, "It's something for us, the leadership, to discuss and for society to discuss, but it is not something for outsiders to impose on us or to tell us what we should be thinking".
"Most importantly it's sufficient to Caf that the ban imposed on us not to program matches in Sierra Leone must be reviewed to allow our people to watch matches of our various national teams". Meanwhile, the lifting of the domestic ban also spelled good news for Sierra Leonean fans of English football.
It was the perfect encapsulation of the minority's shifting and divided self, forced to internalise the limitations imposed on us just to get by, on the wrong side of the velvet rope even when (maybe especially when) you're on the right side of it.
