agriculture | farmers | food
Les Echos | 14-Apr-2014
Un tribunal arbitral constitué sous l’égide du CIRDI condamnait l’Etat roumain à verser aux frères Micula, citoyens suédois ayant investi dans la distribution alimentaire et de boissons, le montant de 250 millions de dollars de dommages et intérêts.
| 12-Apr-2014
The Greens and independent senator Nick Xenophon have said the government will face a tough battle if it seeks to ease foreign investment restrictions.
Reuters | 22-Feb-2013
Cargill has reached a settlement with Mexico in a dispute that resulted in a $77 million arbitration award for the US agribusiness company
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agriculture | farmers | food ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
Mexico ,
NAFTA | USMCA ,
US
National Farmers Union | 16-Feb-2013
The National Farmers Union is among the labour, environmental, Indigenous, women’s, academic, health sector and fair trade organizations representing over 65 million people from both sides of the Atlantic that have signed a joint statement demanding that Canada and the EU stop negotiating an excessive and controversial investor rights chapter in the proposed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
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actions | resistance ,
agriculture | farmers | food ,
Canada ,
ECT ,
EU ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
Reuters | 15-Nov-2012
US agribusiness company Cargill Inc. filed a suit in a US court on Tuesday to compel Mexico to pay a $94.6 million award over trade barriers the company says Mexico put up against high-fructose corn syrup from 2002 to 2007.
keywords:
agriculture | farmers | food ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
Mexico ,
NAFTA | USMCA ,
US
Public Citizen | 2-Mar-2011
The award in agribusiness giant Cargill’s NAFTA investor-state attack on Mexico’s jobs program was published last week.
keywords:
agriculture | farmers | food ,
health ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
Mexico ,
NAFTA | USMCA ,
US
IISD | 9-Oct-2009
Mexico has suffered another loss in a series of investor-state arbitral disputes involving its sugar industry.
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agriculture | farmers | food ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
Mexico ,
NAFTA | USMCA ,
US
| 3-Apr-2009
Dow AgroSciences is mulling over a NAFTA challenge to Quebec’s law banning the cosmetic use of pesticides, setting a spotlight on one of the most controversial clauses of the trade agreement among Canada, the United States and Mexico.
keywords:
agriculture | farmers | food ,
Canada ,
corporate interests ,
environment ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
US
Sendero del Peje | 23-Oct-2008
Montreal, 22 Oct (Notimex).- La firma estadunidense Dow AgroSciences recurrió al Capítulo 11 del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN) para pedir compensación por la prohibición en Québec del uso, “para fines cosméticos”, del herbicida 2,4-D
keywords:
agriculture | farmers | food ,
Canada ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
NAFTA | USMCA ,
US
AllAfrica.com | 13-Oct-2007
The last remaining white commercial farmers have appealed to the regional Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Tribunal in an effort to stop government from expropriating their properties.
