In the 1970s, Tutty won a landmark court case which removed trade restraints on rugby league players.
I agree with you that the answer to economic dislocation is "not new trade restraints."
The new trade restraints would also apply to Nicaraguan shrimp, another product that is processed and packaged in third countries.
He had led negotiating efforts to end some Japanese and European trade restraints.
But its piecemeal approach, aimed at slaking demand for trade restraints, might instead have increased it.
The Administration is still hoping to deflect drastic trade restraints.
The Administration is seeking a compromise under which the removal of trade restraints in several areas, not just agriculture, would be negotiated simultaneously and quickly.
However, eight players sued the league for violating their antitrust laws, and calling the system an unfair trade restraint.
If the economy shrugs off the market collapse, as some economic signs have suggested, the push for trade restraints could be revived next year.
But the decision falls short of the broad trade restraints the Administration had been considering.