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Enforcement failure doesn't mean it isn't banned as you claimed earlier.
by lern_too_spel 4y ago
Enforcement failure doesn't mean it isn't banned as you claimed earlier.
- luckylion 4y agoThat's not what I claimed. I asked why they hadn't included enforcement provisions because it's obvious that people will try to get around it and it's even obvious how they will get around it. Yet here we are, and I still don't know. You offered that the US does some enforcement. So why doesn't the EU? Surely we have the bureaucratic manpower.
- lern_too_spel 4y ago> "What could they do to circumvent this?" - "Import it by proxy" - "okay, we should make sure that's banned" > Instead, it's "wow, who could've known?!" I don't know how to read this any other way. Enforcing sanctions properly is something the EU has struggled with (https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/strict-and-uniform-improving-eu-sanctions-enforcement https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/strict-and-uniform... gives an example of DPRK collecting hostel revenue in Berlin for years with no penalties ever administered), but that is different from saying that "import by proxy" is was unknown and not banned.