Flexible dual-use claims could be new global trade chokepoint

On Sunday, the US Navy seized the Iranian-flagged cargo vessel Touska.

It happened in the middle of a US pressure campaign on Tehran after Washington had expanded blockade enforcement and warned that vessels suspected of carrying goods that provide support to Iran could be stopped.

The ship, travelling from China via Malaysia, was suspected of carrying components deemed dual-use.
In the immediate context, the label served a wartime purpose, but the significance of the episode goes beyond one...