Vanuatu on tuna-blackban list
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has again been placed on V an American blacklist for countries ith which the United States should ~ase doing tuna business. Imports of ellow-fin tuna from Mexico, Venezuela nd Vanuatu into the US were first anned by the American Commerce lepartment under a court order 18 lonths ago.
The three countries have come under nother attack from the same judge in
San Francisco who ruled that the Commerce Department must ban much of the nation’s tuna imports to protect dolphins. He declared that federal law requires the US to impose a secondary embargo on tuna imports from countries that buy tuna from Mexico, Venezuela and Vanuatu. Providing “certificate and proof’ of prohibiting the import of tuna from three large countries is one way of getting off the blacklist. □