Despite the efforts of the International Marine Organization (IMO), through the International Convention on the Control of Harmful Antifouling Systems on Ships to ban the use of TBT-based antifouling paints (September 2008), and the Rotterdam Convention (RC) to forbid the trade of tributyltin (TBT), the situation does not seem to have significantly changed since 2014 when TBT-based paints were shown to be still being manufactured in the United States and offered for sale in stores throughout the Caribbean and Central America. In fact, this study shows that seven years later the same situation not only persists, but may have an even more global distribution than previously thought.

尽管国际海事组织 (IMO) 作出努力，通过《控制船舶有害防污系统的国际公约》（2008 年 9 月）和鹿特丹公约 (RC) 禁止使用基于 TBT 的防污涂料。在三丁基锡 (TBT) 的贸易中，自 2014 年以来，情况似乎没有显着变化，当时美国仍在生产 TBT 基涂料，并在整个加勒比海和中美洲的商店出售。事实上，这项研究表明，七年后同样的情况不仅持续存在，而且可能比以前想象的更加全球化。