In March 1807, Britain, which largely controlled the Atlantic, declared the trans-atlantic slave trade illegal, as did the United States.

In 2006, the primary economic concerns focused on: high national debt ($ 9 trillion ), high non-bank corporate debt ($ 9 trillion ), high mortgage debt ($ 9 trillion ), high financial institution debt ($ 12 trillion ), high unfunded Medicare liability ($ 30 trillion ), high unfunded Social Security liability ($ 12 trillion ), high external debt ( amount owed to foreign lenders ) and a serious deterioration in the United States net international investment position ( NIIP ) (- 24 % of GDP ), high trade deficits, and a rise in illegal immigration.

Rumors and more at the time indicated the Deering was a victim of piracy, possibly connected with the illegal rum-running trade during Prohibition, and possibly involving another ship,, which disappeared at roughly the same time.

Recent difficulties have included repeated trade disputes, environmental concerns, Canadian concern for the future of oil exports, and issues of illegal immigration and the threat of terrorism.

In 1820, Spain abolished the slave trade, hurting the Cuban economy even more and forcing planters to buy more expensive, illegal, and troublesome slaves ( as demonstrated by the events surrounding the ship Amistad ).

As these events were developing, the growing illegal drug trade and its consequences were also increasingly becoming a matter of widespread importance to all participants in the Colombian conflict.

Commercial trade in wild-caught specimens of these species is illegal ( permitted only in exceptional licensed circumstances ).

In 1605, Spain was infuriated that Spanish settlements on the northern and western coasts of the island were carrying out large scale and illegal trade with the Dutch, who were at that time fighting a war if independence against Spain in Europe, and the English, a very recent enemy state, and so decided to forcibly resettle their inhabitants closer to the city of Santo Domingo.

Guayaquil, despite being destroyed on several occasions by fire and incessantly plagued by either yellow fever or malaria, was a center of vigorous trade among the colonies, a trade that was technically illegal under the mercantilist philosophy of the contemporary Spanish rulers.

Recently, espionage agencies have targeted the illegal drug trade and those considered to be terrorists.

The Assembly abolished all internal trade barriers and suppressed guilds, masterships, and workers ' organisations: any individual gained the right to practice a trade through the purchase of a license ; strikes became illegal.

In 1926 he was placed in charge of monitoring shops selling opium, noting regular irregularities and a thriving illegal trade in the controlled substance ; believing opium to be essentially harmless, there is evidence indicating that Gardner probably took many bribes in this position, earning himself a small fortune.

* 1807: The Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament on 25 March 1807, making the slave trade illegal throughout the British Empire.

Although Sayer was found guilty of illegal trade, having evaded the HBC monopoly, Judge Adam Thom did not levy a fine or punishment.

In 1605, Spain was infuriated that Spanish settlements on the northern and western coasts of the island persisted in carrying out large scale and illegal trade with the Dutch, who were at that time fighting a war of independence against Spain in Europe, and the English, a very recent enemy state, and so decided to forcibly resettle their inhabitants closer to the city of Santo Domingo.

Allegations emerged of drug trafficking reaching into the upper echelons of government, as it had done under the military regimes of the 1980s and early 1990s ( illegal drug trade in Haiti ).

Leading members of the military and police have cooperated with the illegal drug trade in Haiti since the 1980s.

Consequently, an individual could only gain the right to practice a trade through the purchase of a license, and worker strikes became illegal.

For example, if Company A's CEO did not trade on the undisclosed takeover news, but instead passed the information on to his brother-in-law who traded on it, illegal insider trading would still have occurred ( albeit by proxy by passing it on to a " non-insider " so Company A's CEO wouldn't get his hands dirty ).

It is also illegal to fail to trade based on inside information ( whereas without the inside information the trade would have taken place ).

The principle is that it is illegal to trade on the basis of market-sensitive information that is not generally known.

Many crimes committed by released convicts treated in TBS-clinics, escape statistics because they occurred in other countries, or because they differ from the crime the convict was originally convicted for ( many convicts released from TBS-clinics find their way in illegal drug trade and related crimes ).

He also alleged that, later in Askin's premiership, Abe Saffron became the " bagman " for Sydney's illegal liquor and prostitution rackets and most illegal gambling activities, collecting payoffs that were then passed to Askin, Allan and others, in return for which his father was completely protected.

The red panda is protected in all range countries, and hunting is illegal.

While it is a popular belief that it is illegal to pick the common Trillium grandiflorum ( white trillium ) in Ontario, in reality they are only protected in provincial parks and land owned by conservation authorities.

The sugar glider is protected by law in South Australia, where it is illegal to keep them without a permit or to capture or sell them without a licence ( which is usually only issued for research ).

The harvesting procedure itself may be illegal, including using corrupt means to gain access to forests ; extraction without permission or from a protected area ; the cutting of protected species ; or the extraction of timber in excess of agreed limits.

Tigers ' and lions ' claws are expensive because it is illegal to trade the parts of such protected animals.

Unless physically protected, CCTV cameras have been found to be vulnerable against a variety of ( mostly illegal ) tactics:

This has troubled relationships between conservationists and rural communities in many protected regions and is often why many Wildlife Reserves and National Parks face the human threat of poaching for the illegal bushmeat or trophy trades which is resorted to as an alternative form of substinence.

It had been protected by the 1st amendment until that time, when it became illegal for US citizens to swear allegiance to Germany.

In some cases the poisoning is done by poachers, who fear the presence of vultures will alert authorities to their activities, the illegal killings of protected species.

First aid kits are sometimes marked ( by an individual or organisation ) with a red cross on white background, but use of this symbol by anyone but the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) or associated agency is illegal under the terms of the First Geneva Convention, which designates the red cross as a protected symbol in all countries signatory to it.

The stability and security Windows NT can offer is partially based on thunking being totally illegal, except thunks from Win16 to Win32 — the CPU must remain in protected mode at all times.

Prosecutors are protected from civil liability even when they knowingly and maliciously break the law in order to secure convictions, and the doctrine of harmless error is used by appellate courts to uphold convictions despite such illegal tactics, thus giving prosecutors few incentives to comply with the law.

In most of its range the paddlefish is a protected species, and fishing for paddlefish is illegal in many areas.

At this point most of the site was still unexcavated, and in a strongly worded passage Heizer reported that the site was inadequately protected by the Mexican government and a wave of illegal excavations followed the departure of the archaeologists, as well as damage by urban sprawl, the national oil company, Pemex, and the removal of large monuments to museums ( without leaving markers as to their original positions ).

This species is protected by Indonesian law but is threatened by illegal hunting.

" claiming in an editorial that "( C-61 ) allows the recording of webcasts and TV and radio programs to be enjoyed at different times " while ignoring the fact that if the files are protected by digital rights management ( DRM ) it is illegal to break the DRM to make the recording.

While protected from some of crime problems that affect their urban counterparts, this isolation has made the area attractive for drug runners bringing their merchandise into Mexico City, for kidnappers, illegal logging and more, which has led to a number of murders in the area.

UNESCO has placed the most blame for the problems on the proliferation of illegal human settlements in the protected zone.

Like most parrots, it is protected by CITES, an international agreement, that makes trade, export, and import of listed wild-caught species illegal.

After objections from bodies such as the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors ' Committee ( the heads of the universities ) and the Ministry of Education over illegal use of a protected word ( in this case, university ) and thus possible misleading advertising, the effective co-branding of the wānanga was phased out.

Edge also obtained legislation authorizing the governor to appoint jury commissioners for each county, thereby bypassing county sheriffs, who previously had hand-picked grand jurors who they knew would refuse to indict those engaged in illegal activities protected by political bosses, such as Hague.

The harvesting procedure itself may be illegal, including using corrupt means to gain access to forests ; extraction without permission or from a protected area ; the cutting of protected species ; or the extraction of timber in excess of agreed limits ( see Box 1 ).