US Removes Piracy Sanctions From Ukraine

An anonymous reader writes The US has restored Ukraine to their preferred trade partner status after requiring the country to crack down on piracy. The United States had also imposed 100-percent import duties on $75 million worth of Ukrainian exports since 2002." From the article: "Concern over high piracy rates prompted the Bush administration to suspend Ukraine from the program in 2001. At that time, Ukraine was the largest producer and exporter of pirated CDs and DVDs in Europe, USTR said."

Comments

Re:Insightful??!! Mods on Crack Again

[CRCulver]

I'm in no way a left-leaning moonbat. In fact, I'm afraid for Ukraine because I think that the influence of the Orthodox Church will be too eroded if Ukraine aligns with the West. That probably puts me somewhere on the right.

Re:Letter from Dubya

[Geoffreyerffoeg]

What part of this is funny? This is how countries work. This is how countries have always worked. For example, it's no coincidence that the last years of the US Great Depression were shortly before it entered World War II; we needed raw materials, they needed arms, so we set up a similar trade.

Just because it's oil, jets, and hegemony instead of iron, cotton, and slaves doesn't make a difference.

For all the USA citizens...

[Anonymous Coward]

...who do not understand why your government is perceived as bullies and resented so much, this is a good example. Another country is not doing what corporate America^W^Wthe USA government wants, and so they use the full force of government power to forbid you, the millions of USA citizens, from trading with anybody from that country, to the economic detriment of that country.

I'm curious. What part of that is right and proper?