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Colombia and the US sign an agreement to balance investments in the FTA
América Economía | 17-Jan-2025
The new interpretative note on the investment chapter of the FTA seeks to avoid legal abuses and protect the sovereignty of both countries without affecting incentives for foreign investment.
keywords: Colombia , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform , US
US-Colombia FTA: Interpretations of the investment chapter (Jan 2025)
USTR | 17-Jan-2025
keywords: Colombia , FTAs (texts of) , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform , US
Senators demand US trade chief Tai halt late talks on investor protections
Reuters | 16-Jan-2025
A bipartisan group of US senators called on US Trade Representative to stop negotiations with Mexico, Canada and Colombia that they say would weaken investor protections in some US free trade deals during the Biden administration’s final days.
keywords: CAFTA , Colombia , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA , US
Democrats urge end to trade deal investor protections as USTR denies secret talks
Reuters | 20-Dec-2024
A group of 37 Democratic lawmakers urged the US Trade Representative’s office to press ahead with efforts to weaken investment protections in US trade agreements.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , US
Panama agrees $26m payment to settle dispute with US miner
Mining.com | 28-Nov-2024
Panama has agreed to pay $26 million to settle a dispute with Dominion Mineral Corp. after losing an arbitration award in 2020 over the US mining company’s copper-gold exploration licences.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Panama , US
Colombia to renegotiate arbitration issues of FTAs with the US and UE
Prensa Latina | 25-Nov-2024
Colombia’s President said that Colombia will try to renegotiate the Free Trade Agreements with the European Union and the United States, concerning arbitration prerogatives based on national law.
keywords: Colombia , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS , US
Third-party funder is the only winner in Odyssey Marine Exploration’s suit against Mexico
Inequality.org | 21-Oct-2024
The country will likely have to pay over $30 million to an American litigation firm because it wanted to protect its environment from harmful seabed mining.
keywords: environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico , mining , NAFTA | USMCA , US
Mexico loses phosphate mining lawsuit in controversial arbitration process
Mongabay | 27-Sep-2024
Odyssey Marine Exploration, a deep-sea mining company based in Florida, sued Mexico after rejecting environmental permits for a phosphate mining project off the coast of the state of Baja California Sur.
keywords: environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico , mining , NAFTA | USMCA , US
Odyssey Marine Exploration reports win in NAFTA arbitration case
Business Wire | 18-Sep-2024
The award orders Mexico to pay US$37.1 million for breaching its obligations under NAFTA, plus interest.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico , mining , NAFTA | USMCA , US
The for-profit city that might come crashing down
New York Times | 29-Aug-2024
The dream of Próspera, founded by a US corporation off the coast of Honduras, was to escape government control. The Honduran government wants it gone but Próspera filed an astronomical $10.775 billion lawsuit against the state.
keywords: CAFTA , Honduras , investor-state disputes | ISDS , sovereignty | democracy , US