The Trucking Dispute is now a NAFTA Chapter 11 investment dispute as well:
After nearly two years of resisting the opening of the U.S.-Mexico border to long-haul trucking operations, the Mexican motor carrier association now is taking the U.S. to “NAFTA court.”
Canacar filed a Notice of Arbitration on Thursday, April 2, claiming the shutdown of the cross-border trucking demonstration program is a violation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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In the notice the group claims that shutting down the program could cost Mexico $2 billion a year.
ADDED: Now that I think about it, this post was a bit misleading. The original NAFTA Chapter 20 dispute involved not just trade in services, but also the NAFTA investment provisions. So perhaps what I should have said was, "not just a state-to-state dispute settlement case anymore." But that wouldn't have been a very catchy title.
