Massachusetts Burma Law

The Massachusetts Burma Law was a law enacted in 1996 by the Massachusetts General Court limiting state entities from purchasing services from companies doing business with Myanmar (Burma).[1] This law was enacted three months before the introduction of federal sanctions on trade with Burma.[2]

The law was modeled on similar state and local laws from the 1980s used elsewhere in the United States to give expression to anti-apartheid objectives.[2] After Massachusetts' restricted trade list added 34 members of the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC), the trade association sued the Secretary of Administration and Finance of Massachusetts, Stephen Crosby, arguing that the Massachusetts Burma Law was subject to federal preemption. In Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council (2000), the Supreme Court unanimously sided with the NFTC, ending enforcement of the Massachusetts Burma Law.[3]

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References

  1. ^ State Library of Massachusetts, 1996 Chapter 0130. An Act Regulating State Contracts With Companies Doing Business With Or In Burma (Myanmar), accessed 23 February 2021
  2. ^ a b Harrison Institute for Public Law (2000), Defending the Massachusetts Burma Law, Georgetown University Law Center
  3. ^ Matsushita, Mitsuo (September 2006). "Major WTO Dispute Cases Concerning Government Procurement". Asian Journal of WTO and International Health Law and Policy. 1 (2): 299–315.


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