Generally Tamil Muslims are involved in various trades like retail, mutton shops, shops in foreign bazaar.

For example, they hoped that certain species of fish like the New Zealand snapper would return because they had been fished to the brink of commercial extinction.

Lamb and mutton are very popular in Central Asia and in certain parts of China, where other red meats may be eschewed for religious or economic reasons.

The embargo adopted by the European countries also constituted a suspension of Argentina's rights under two sectoral agreements on trade in textiles and trade in mutton and lamb, for which security exceptions of GATT did not apply. It might be argued, however, that such trade restrictions are not an effect of the armed conflict on treaties but rather sanctions imposed on Argentina for its action in the Falklands Islands (Malvinas).