Why NAFTA violates the Canadian Constitution.
I. INTRODUCTION With the proliferation of international economic treaties over the last decade, many of the traditional hallmarks of state sovereignty continue to erode. Each new round of negotiations on transnational economic integration, such as those surrounding the Multilateral Agreement on Investment(1) and the creation of the...

Globalization, integration, and cross-border relations in the metropolitan area of Detroit (USA) and Windsor (Canada).
Abstract Focusing on one aspect of international relations, cross-border relations this paper examines the Ontario-Michigan border region at Detroit. It addresses the following question: Is there a history of trade relations that leads to functional interdependencies? Does free trade, particularly since the Free Trade Agreement and the...

"This does not matter in Mexico": Mexico-U.S. competition law - conflicts and resolutions.
I. INTRODUCTION II. MEXICO'S COMPETITION LAW: BEHIND THE LANGUAGE A. Single Agency Enforcement B. Substantive Provisions C. Similar Language, Different Results D. Differences in Legal Systems and Traditions: Civil Law's Certainty Versus Common Law's Flexibility III. RECENT DISPUTES: THE WTO TAKES ACTION TO SETTLE COMPETITION LAW CONFLICTS A. An...

In the shadow of the China-Australia FTA negotiations: What Australian business thinks about IP.
1 Introduction Since early 2005, Australia and China have been negotiating a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) including proposals for a chapter on Intellectual Property (IP). Achieving a workable and mutually beneficial agreement, however, requires knowledge of both the scale and nature of IP-related issues of concern in...

Commercial Alternative Dispute Resolution in Cascadia *.
Abstracts: "Commercial Alternative Dispute Resolution in Cascadia". The paper focuses on the interface between two recent trends in the context of NAFTA: regionalism in the Pacific Northwest and ADR. The purpose of the research is to study the use of ADR as practised in the narrow "Cascadia Corridor". To...

The Mexican trucking dispute: a bottleneck to free trade. A tough (road) test on the NAFTA dispute settlement mechanism.
I. INTRODUCTION The harmonization of domestic concerns and international treaty obligations is out of tune at best, as the United States unacceptably delayed opening the border to Mexican trucking services. Under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), (1) the United States, Canada, and Mexico provided for...

ASEAN-ANZ FTA talks going too slowly.
Byline: EDU LOPEZ A senior official of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has lamented the slow progress in the free trade talks that have been negotiated between the Asean trade bloc and the twin countries -- Australia and New Zealand. This was the...

The Environment and NAFTA: Understanding and Implementing the New Continental Law.
I Trade and Environment: A Bellwether Issue In spite of its roots in the early years of the twentieth century, international environmental law is still immature.(1) Its rapid but helter-skelter growth in recent years marks a movement still in its adolescent phase, with all the energy, tension,...

Global Environmental Politics, 2d ed.
I Trade and Environment: A Bellwether Issue In spite of its roots in the early years of the twentieth century, international environmental law is still immature.(1) Its rapid but helter-skelter growth in recent years marks a movement still in its adolescent phase, with all the energy, tension,...

Following the EU path: the designers of the Security and Prosperity Partnership plan to transform North America into a regional government modeled after the European Union.
Eventually our long-range objective is to establish with the United States, but also with Canada, our other regional partner, an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union. --Mexican President Vicente Fox's "new global agenda" speech to Club XXI in Madrid, Spain,...