NAFTA | USMCA

North America Free Trade Agreement | US-Mexico-Canada Agreement

Le cœur pétrolier du Canada veut faire payer les États-Unis pour l’oléoduc Keystone XL mis au rebut

45 Secondes | 5-Feb-2021

L’Alberta, le cœur pétrolier du Canada, pourrait demander une compensation aux États-Unis après que le président nouvellement investi, Joe Biden, ait déménagé pour réparer le pipeline Keystone XL.

keywords: Canada , climate , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA , US

Table of foreign investor-state cases and claims under NAFTA and other US “trade deals”

Public Citizen | 28-Jan-2021

ISDS tribunals have ordered governments to pay corporations more than $989 million in compensation after ISDS attacks launched just under U.S. agreements.

keywords: from the movements , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA , US

Keystone XL legal risks highlight dangers of putting investors before climate change

The Conversation | 26-Jan-2021

The owner of Keystone XL — TC Energy (previously TransCanada) — used NAFTA to launch a US$15 billion lawsuit in 2016 after President Barack Obama cancelled the project.

keywords: Canada , climate , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA , US

Canada scrambles to salvage Keystone XL as Biden prepares to kill troubled pipeline project

Reuters | 19-Jan-2021

Alberta believes there was a “very solid” legal basis to seek damages under international free trade agreements if the pipeline is effectively killed, said Alberta Premier

keywords: Canada , climate , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA , US

Foreign investors harmed by trade measures may find relief by bringing investment arbitration claims

JDsupra | 16-Nov-2020

Vento’s claims ultimately failed on the merits because Vento could not show irregularities in the Mexican tax authority’s treatment of its investment.

keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico , NAFTA | USMCA , US

México tiene 13 demandas millonarias del anterior TLCAN: Secretaría de Economía

Televisa | 1-Nov-2020

México tiene 13 demandas derivadas del anterior Tratado de Libre Comercio con Estados Unidos y Canadá (TLCAN) reveló la secretaría de Economía, Graciela Márquez, que además aseguró es un número inusual.

keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico , NAFTA | USMCA

T-MEC pone trabas a la intención de AMLO de realizar una contrarreforma energética

Sputnik | 6-Oct-2020

La intención del Gobierno de México para contrarrestar la reforma energética promulgada en 2014 podría implicar violaciones a los compromisos que el país latinoamericano adquirió al suscribirse a los Tratados Integral y Progresista de Asociación Transpacífico (TIPAT) y, así como al acuerdo entre México, Estados Unidos y Canadá (T-MEC).

keywords: energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico , NAFTA | USMCA

Tribunal dismisses all of investor’s claims under NAFTA and orders him to pay more than $2 million in costs

International Law Office | 17-Sep-2020

The tribunal held that the Mexican authorities had not violated international commercial law or breached their commitments under treaties to which they were a party.

keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico , NAFTA | USMCA , telecommunications