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NAFTA Chapter 11

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Counter-measures defence raised in NAFTA Chapter 11 claims against Mexico

A guest post from Luke Eric Peterson of the Investment Arbitration Reporter : In recent weeks, Mexico has slapped retaliatory tariffs on certain US goods – and sought to justify this by pointing to the US failure to provide greater access for Mexican trucks (more specificially, Mexico cites a failure of the

Thea Lee on NAFTA Chapter 11

I've been intrigued with the brief mentions of investor-state arbitration during the Presidential campaign. Here is something on this subject from Thea Lee, policy director for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO): The NAFTA investment chapter should also be revisited. NAFTA was the

Investor-State Arbitration and the U.S. Presidential Campaign

From Alan Beattie in the FT: Amid the noisy battering the North American Free Trade Agreement is taking from both Democratic presidential hopefuls, one recent statement from Hillary Clinton was particularly resonant. “We will have a very clear view of how we’re going to review Nafta ,” the New York

Obama/Clinton: "Opt Out Of" Or "Re-negotiate" NAFTA

I was just watching the Obama-Clinton debate in Ohio. Most of the trade stuff was boilerplate, but one point jumped out at me. Both Obama and Clinton stated explicitly that they will "opt out" of NAFTA unless the governments of Canada and Mexico agree to re-negotiate the agreement.

Trade in Everything: Live Cattle and "Pregnant Heifers"

Reader Perry Bechky points me to a NAFTA Chapter 11 ruling from a couple days ago, in which the Tribunal rejected an investment claim related to trade restrictions on certain live cattle coming from Canada into the U.S. The basic finding was that the Canadians had no investment in