NAFTA | USMCA
North America Free Trade Agreement | US-Mexico-Canada Agreement
Straight Goods | 7-Feb-2005
On January 24, the Council of Canadians and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) launched a constitutional challenge against NAFTA’s Chapter 11 rules before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. This is the first time that a court will consider the constitutionality of international trade rules.
ALCA/IIRSA, Plan Colombia y el Eje de Desarrollo Occidental | 11-May-2004
El Tratado de Libre Comercio para América del Norte (TLCAN, enero 1994), el Área de Libre Comercio para las Américas (ALCA, diciembre 1994), el Plan Colombia (1999), la Integración de la Infraestructura Regional Suramericana (IIRSA, septiembre 2000) y el Plan Puebla Panamá (PPP, marzo 2001) son distintos elementos estructurantes de la política hegemónica de los Estados Unidos para las Américas y el Caribe.
keywords:
FTAA ,
geopolitics ,
IIRSA ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
NAFTA | USMCA ,
sovereignty | democracy ,
Venezuela
ALCA/IIRSA, Plan Colombia y el Eje de Desarrollo Occidental | 11-May-2004
The North American Free Trade Treaty (NAFTA, Jan 1994), the Free Trade Area for the Americas (FTAAs, December 1994), Plan Colombia (1999), the Regional Integration of Infrastructure in South America (RIISA, September 2000) and the Plan Puebla Panamá (PPP, March 2001) are the building blocks of the US hegemonic policy for the Americas and the Caribbean.
keywords:
FTAA ,
geopolitics ,
IIRSA ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
NAFTA | USMCA ,
sovereignty | democracy ,
Venezuela
| 18-Apr-2004
After the highest court in Massachusetts ruled against a Canadian real estate company and after the United State Supreme Court declined to hear its appeal, the company’s day in court was over.
keywords:
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
NAFTA | USMCA
| 24-Mar-2004
The recent explosion of bilateral investment and trade agreements and investor-state disputes is of growing concern. Many mobilisations against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) aim to stop attempts by industrialised countries to kickstart talks on a multilateral investment agreement at September’s Cancun Ministerial meeting.
