Managing the Risk of Sanctions in the Global Oil & Gas Industry: Corporate Response Under Political, Legal and Commercial Pressures
Article from: OGEL Archive issue , in Economic and Commercial Context for Oil, Gas and Energy Law
Introduction
p>"Two years ago the English opened up the trade, which they still continue, to the Levant, which is extremely profitable to them, as they take great quantities of tin and lead thither, which the Turk buys of them almost for its weight in gold, the tin being vitally necessary for the casting of guns and the lead for purposes of war. It is of double importance to the Turk now, in consequence of the excommunication pronounced ipso facto by the Pope upon any person who provides or sells to infidels such materials as these".
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