NAFTA | USMCA
North America Free Trade Agreement | US-Mexico-Canada Agreement
Montreal Gazette | 28-Aug-2010
It came as a surprise to many this week that the federal government — and ultimately Canadian taxpayers — will make a payment of $130 million to Montrealbased AbitibiBowater Inc. to compensate for company assets expropriated by the Newfoundland government in that province.
keywords:
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
NAFTA | USMCA
| 25-Aug-2010
Premier Danny Williams says the Newfoundland and Labrador government will not share the $130-million settlement the federal government made with AbitibiBowater.
keywords:
Canada ,
corporate interests ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
NAFTA | USMCA ,
US
IISD | 9-Oct-2009
Mexico has suffered another loss in a series of investor-state arbitral disputes involving its sugar industry.
keywords:
agriculture | farmers | food ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
Mexico ,
NAFTA | USMCA ,
US
World-Grain.com | 21-Aug-2009
US-based Corn Products International has been awarded damages of over $58m in a dispute with Mexico over violations of the North America Free Trade Agreement.
Reuters | 11-Jun-2009
A unit of Goldcorp has lost a bid to get $50 million in compensation after a US trade tribunal rejected claims the gold miner’s operations were hampered by environmental regulations
IPS | 13-Feb-2009
As the global economy descends further into crisis, a new report finds that U.S. trade and investment agreements with 52 countries have removed one tool that has proved effective in past crises: capital controls.
keywords:
BITs (texts of) ,
FTAs (texts of) ,
ICSID ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
NAFTA | USMCA ,
sovereignty | democracy ,
US
| 29-Jan-2009
The federal government has confirmed it is now playing a part to help resolve a dispute between AbitibiBowater and the Newfoundland and Labrador government.
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
CBC | 23-Oct-2008
Dow AgroSciences, maker of the commonly used herbicide ingredient 2,4-D, is challenging the Quebec government under the North American Free Trade Agreement for banning its product.
El Diario | 29-Apr-2008
Alrededor de 4 mil 500 empresas afiliadas a la Cámara Nacional de Autotransporte de Carga (Canacar) demandarán bajo el recurso de “en arbitraje por daños y perjuicios” al gobierno de EU, por incumplir los términos del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN) desde hace 14 años, al impedir el libre tránsito de transportistas e inversión entre ambos países.
