Arbitration panel rejects claim of NAFTA violation by U.S.
On August 10, 2005, the U.S. State Department announced that a three-member North American Free Trade Agreement arbitration tribunal has just dismissed a $970 million claim filed by Methanex, a Canadian methanol producer, challenging California's regulations of the gasoline additive MTBE. The U.S. views this ruling as supporting the...

Dissonant harmonization: limitations on "cash n' carry" creativity.
"Who is that?" "Nobody. The author." (1) ABSTRACT Even though creativity lies at the heart of present copyright laws, the impulse to create--or more precisely what triggers such creativity--remains largely unexamined. (2) Coinciding with the digital demand for access to information, new standards for "cash...

Canada: a different North American society?
An IMPORTANT PART OF THE ETERNAL CANADIAN IDENTITY DEBATE IS about what makes us different from the United States. We are on the same North American continent. Canada is party to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and 87 per cent of its external trade is with the...

Pregnancy discrimination in Latin America: the exclusion of "employment discrimination" from the definition of "labor laws" in the Central American Free Trade Agreement.
Regional trading blocs and bilateral trade agreements have become increasingly important within the western hemisphere. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement, and the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) have all been passed in the last fifteen years. This Article will focus principally...

Pacts with developed nations to take Indian trade into new era.
Byline: K G Narendranath NEW DELHI: India is currently negotiating preferential trade and investment agreements with some developed countries - the European Union, Japan and Korea. It is also contemplating similar agreements with Australia and New Zealand. If these agreements materialise (they are most likely...

The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
I. Introduction On March 23, 2005, U.S. President George Bush, former Mexican President Vicente Fox, and former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin jointly announced the establishment of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). (1) The SPP is a framework for trilateral and bilateral cooperation...

ASEAN and multilateralism: the long, bumpy road to community.
From a geopolitical perspective, the Asian littoral divides into three subregions: Northeast Asia (the People's Republic of China, Japan, North and South Korea, Taiwan and the Russian Far East), Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) and South Asia (India,...

China, Chile and free trade agreements.
Exposición realizada por el Embajador de Chile en India, Jorge Heine, en la reunión del APEC realizada en Pusan, Corea, el 19 de noviembre de 2005. On November 19, at the 21-nation APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Summit held in Pusan, South Korea, Presidents Hu Jintao of China...

Elias Antonio Saca looking to the future: a staunch defender of free trade and integration, el salvador's president talks about why, sixteen years after the civil war, his country has become "a success story in Latin America".
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] On a cold, rainy afternoon in Washington, between meetings, telephone calls, and commitments, Elias Antonio Saca--one of Latin America's youngest presidents--talks with Americas about his country, El Salvador. Proud of having been a journalist before becoming head of state four years ago, the 43-year-old Saca...

The limits of international human rights law and the role of food sovereignty in protecting people from further trade liberalization under the Doha Round negotiations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION II. FOOD INSECURITY AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF FURTHER AGRICULTURAL TRADE LIBERALIZATION UNDER THE DOHA ROUND A. Corn and Food Insecurity in Mexico after NAFTA B. Agriculture and Food Insecurity in Developing Countries under the WTO Agreement on Agriculture C. Agriculture and Food Insecurity in...