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The UN's environment chief insists that a landmark global treaty tackling plastic pollution remains achievable, despite talks twice imploding without agreement, and the chair suddenly resigning this week.

She said the country had relied too heavily on selling goods, such as commodities like energy and minerals, to the U.S. tariff-free under the provisions of a North American trade treaty.

Because each state under this treaty expressly retained its “sovereignty,” the best reading was that each state would decide for itself who was and was not a citizen of that state.

But the treaty was buffeted by tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

But while strongly-worded opinions over whether or not to pull out of the treaty make for easy headlines, the consequences are deeply complicated.