Turtle Shrimp Law: A Case Study

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In 1996, India, Malaysia, Pakistan and Thailand filed a complaint against the United States claiming that the U.S. Turtle Shrimp Law violated international trade law by barring the importation of their shrimp and shrimp products. Thousands of sea turtles were drowning every year when being caught in shrimp nets. The United States ordered that domestic shrimpers to use protective technology called Turtle Excluder Devices, which are a kind of trap door by which turtles can escape from shrimp nets. In 1989, Congress banned importation of shrimp caught by foreign shrimpers who do not practice the use of Turtle Excluder Devices. In 1998, The WTO ruled against the United States. The United States were discriminating by giving Asian countries only four months to comply with the Turtle Shrimp Law, but giving Caribbean Basin nations three years. The United States reviewed their guidelines on the importation of shrimp, changing both the process and the schedule by which it evaluates how well foreign shrimpers are doing at protecting sea turtles from drowning. …show more content…
As economies become wealthier many changes may be applied in hopes to increase the wellbeing of a community, state, country, and even the world. There will be always someone or something that will be affected by the change being applied. This is problematic since changes made by a nation may cause more than one problem to other national economies by attempting to solve their own issue. Secondary effects are issues that cannot be solved since changes with affects with always appear. In which it can be understood why these changes and effects happened in the shrimp-turtle case through human suffering and regional
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