…advisory depending on the specific treaty. For example, the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (“USMCA”), the Free Trade Commission could submit its interpretation on the treaty provision, which will be binding…
…USMCA,8)Tyler Pager, Biden Says He Supports USMCA, Citing Provisions for Labor, Bloomberg, Dec. 20, 2019; Joshua Green, Biden’s NAFTA Vote Is a Liability in the Rust Belt, Bloomberg, May 14,…
…Maori people when negotiating trade and investment agreements. The United States, Canada, and Mexico Agreement (USMCA, the new NAFTA) also includes similar provisions such as the General Exception for Indigenous…
…request from Belgium to CJEU for an opinion on the interaction between EU law and the future modernised ECT; the entry into force of the USMCA; ISDS and its reform,…
…international arena, concluding treaties with a direct impact on international disputes (USMCA, ICSID, EU-Mexico FTA). How do you think these measures will change the arbitration landscape in Mexico and what…
…Canada and the EU (CETA), the EU-Singapore FTA, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The debate on specific representation and its scope, nuance, and degree is important. A specific representation can…
…e.g., NAFTA, USMCA, ECT, CAFCA, and bilateral investment treaties. Comparative law brings clearly the need to understand that at all levels of legal direction, there are different national ways of…
…and through their manifestation at the regional and bilateral level, as was evident from our coverage of the new dispute settlement paradigms established by the USMCA and ECT modernization process….
…Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (“CPTPP,” which entered into force for most of its parties on December 30, 2018), Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (“CUSMA,” also known as USMCA or T-MEC, which entered…
…from investment treaty-making confirm this, including the USMCA, CPTPP, the EU’s investment agreements with Canada, Singapore and Viet Nam, ACIA, and the China-Hong Kong CEPA (which altogether eschews investor-state arbitration…
…of Central America-Korea FTA (2018), Article 9.18 of CPTPP, Article 3.4 of EU-Singapore IPA (2018), Article 10 of Kazakhstan-UAE BIT (2018), Article 14.D.2 of USMCA (2018). While the use of…
…investors under international investment agreements. For example, the United States Mexico Canada Agreement (the “USMCA”), which replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”) on July 1, 2020, removed investor-State…
…Canada Agreement (USMCA), considerable modifications have been introduced to dispute settlement mechanisms regulated therein. In addition to the US, the EU has been actively promoting its model and the reform…
…conclusion of megaregional agreements (e.g. CETA, USMCA, CPTPP) maintained impetus, especially in Africa, pending the promising operationalization of the African Union’s first CFTA. 2. Morocco’s Diplomatic Network Consolidated in the…
Despite apparent “America First” language in the US Summary of Objectives for the NAFTA renegotiation which appear contrary to the minimum standards of treatment and fair and equitable treatment, those…
Chapter 11: Where Investors Go to Complain NAFTA renegotiations began last year and, with attention once again on this 23-year old trade deal, critics are taking the opportunity to voice…
On the campaign trail, and throughout his term in office, President Trump has not been shy to express his discontent with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), vowing he…
Debates about the propriety of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) were revived by a recent letter by U.S. academics, which urged the abandonment of ISDS in the renegotiated North American Free…
After the US election, it was a certainty that in my inbox every morning there was at least one, if not more, email with a discussion on the future of…
NAFTA on the tightrope One of President Donald Trump’s most frequent campaign promises was to “eliminate” the North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”), which he described as “the worst trade…
