Exactly how was the “sovergnty (sic) of the Country” in imminent peril?
Any country in the world has the opportunity to, attempt to, join the United States on our quest...
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.Article IV
Section 3. New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.
You want "fair trade"? Petition Congress to become a state, play by our rules, what could be more fair than that?
If they get voted down (for whatever reasons), then special consideration should be granted for, at least, making the attempt.