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Trade agreements like NAFTA are a menace to democracy
Jacobin | 5-Mar-2021
Free-trade agreements enable companies to sue governments if they interfere with profit-making activities, no matter how destructive. These trade deals put us in an antidemocratic straitjacket — it’s time we got rid of them.
keywords: Canada , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA , sovereignty | democracy
International investment agreements and their implications for tax measures
UNCTAD | 3-Mar-2021
Most international investment agreements do not exclude taxation from their scope, which means that a wide range of tax-related measures are covered by them.
keywords: finance | banking | taxes , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Why a green reform of the Energy Charter Treaty is unlikely
Investigate Europe | 3-Mar-2021
It is highly questionable whether there will be a new or revised treaty in two years that will protect the climate instead of endangering it.
keywords: climate , ECT , energy , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS
750 000 signataires appellent l’UE et la France à sortir du Traité sur la charte de l’énergie, ce Traité qui protège les pollueurs
L’Humanité | 3-Mar-2021
Plus de 750 000 personnes ont signé en une seule semaine la pétition européenne appelant l’Union européenne et les Etats-membres de l’UE à se retirer du Traité sur la charte de l’énergie.
keywords: actions | resistance , climate , ECT , energy , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Solicita minera canadiense arbitraje contra México
NTR | 3-Mar-2021
La minera canadiense First Majestic Silver inició una solicitud de arbitraje internacional bajo el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN) contra el Gobierno de México, informó la compañía, que mantiene una disputa fiscal con las autoridades del País.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , NAFTA | USMCA
Canadian miner First Majestic wants to resolve its tax dispute with the SAT with international arbitration
MRT | 3-Mar-2021
Canadian mining company First Majestic Silver Corp submitted a request for arbitration based on NAFTA, due to the tax debt and its differences with the Mexican government.
keywords: Canada , finance | banking | taxes , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico , mining , NAFTA | USMCA
Un Festival de Jazz, foco de un posible arbitraje contra China
CIAR Global | 2-Mar-2021
China dispone de tres meses para ofrecer respuesta a Eugenio Montenero, propietario de H&M Production, empresa ya disuelta, antes de que se dé inicio a un arbitraje. El Festival Anual de Jazz en la isla de Hainan es el protagonista de la reclamación del empresario que vio sus expectativas truncadas ante la cancelación por parte del Gobierno local de la segunda edición programada para 2014.
keywords: China , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Alexandrov En El Punto De Mira De Guatemala Para Anular Laudo De TECO
CIAR Global | 26-Feb-2021
El largo recorrido de este conflicto parece no tener meta. El arbitraje entre Guatemala y TECO Guatemala Holdings LLC (TECO) añade otro capítulo a su línea del tiempo.
keywords: Guatemala , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Draft unified agreement for the investment of Arab capital in the Arab states (amended, Jan 2013)
UNCTAD | 25-Feb-2021
keywords: BITs (texts of) , investor-state disputes | ISDS , North Africa , West Asia
Why Gadhafi’s private jet is gathering dust on a French airfield
CNN | 24-Feb-2021
An aribtral tribunal ordered Libya to pay the Al Kharafi Group $930 million in damages. The Al Kharafi Group sued the Libyan state in France too, so when Gadhafi’s A340 landed in France, they sought to have it impounded.
keywords: France , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Kuwait , Libya , services