Tobacco Carveout

Recall that the tobacco carveout originated in the TPP, but has now spread to new FTAs/IIAs involving Singapore. Interestingly, the tobacco carveout was not in the recent Australia-Indonesia FTA (there was a broader public health exclusion instead), but it does appear in the revised Australia-Hong Investment Agreement (their original

The TPP ISDS tobacco carveout was the first, the Singapore - Australia FTA update was the second. Now we have a third example, carried by Singapore over to the Singapore - Kazakhstan BIT: CHAPTER III: DISPUTE SETTLEMENT SECTION ONE: SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES BETWEEN A PARTY AND AN INVESTOR OF THE