Sentences with phrase «investment chapter»

So, it mainly concerns really the controversial investment chapter.

Negotiators from the two countries agreed to accelerate a review of the services and investment chapters of the China - Australia Free Trade Agreement.

This has obvious consequences for the legality of intra-EU BITs, and only slightly less obvious consequences for the compatibility of investment chapters in EU Agreements.

In a previous co ‑ authored paper, Maxim Usynin and I have analyzed over 150 PTAs world - wide and we found that ever since the dawn of NAFTA, countries and REIOs such as Japan, Canada, US, Australia, and ASEAN have included investment chapters in most of their PTAs, while others, such as India, China, CARICOM, Chile and the EU are increasingly doing so.

For example, the TPP investment chapter would allow foreign investors to sue governments in international arbitration for money damages in compensation for the cost of complying with regulations that reduced their investments» value or future profitability, based on the evidence provided by the RIA.

The TTIP investment chapter could provide cover for U.S. and European officials who are indebted to Big Oil, Big Coal and the LNG lobby for political support or campaign contributions.

Represented the United States in an ICSID Additional Facility case brought by a construction subcontractor regarding national content requirements that allegedly violated the NAFTA Investment Chapter.

Table of Contents Chapter 1: What are Bond Investments Chapter 2: Categories of Bonds Chapter 3: Understanding Bond Terminology Chapter 4: Who Should Buy Bonds Chapter 5: How to Buy and Sell Bonds Chapter 6: Factors to Consider Before Buying Bonds

With the Doha Round of trade negotiations stalling at the WTO for more than ten years now, the sustainability of the multilateral trading regime is being questioned as countries resort increasingly to bilateral or regional FTAs (with investment chapters) for the advancement of their economic interests.

The U.S. investment chapter proposal would allow foreign corporations to sue governments over laws and policies that corporations allege reduce their profits.

In Opinion 2/15 on the EU - Singapore FTA, the Court held that the proposed investment chapter covered rather more than «foreign direct investment» and hence fell beyond the scope of the common commercial policy's exclusive competence of the EU.

In the light of the foreseeable risk that CJEU declares the CETA investment chapter to be capable of undermining the autonomy of the EU legal order, Member States are required by the principle of EU loyalty to halt ratification in order to demonstrate a uniform position as one Party, together with the EU and the other Member States, on the international plane in general and vis - à - vis Canada in particular.

«The Trans - Pacific Partnership Investment Chapter: Setting a New Standard in International Investment Agreements» NYSBA New York Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Summer of 2016, vol.9, No. 2.

Second, the recent EU FTIAs with Canada, Vietnam, Singapore and the TTIP proposal all include investment chapters that are made up of three parts: (a) an initial part on what constitutes an investment and who qualifies as an investor; (b) a part on standards of investment protection and principles the host - state must ensure (MFN, FET, prohibition of all types of expropriation, etc.); and (c) the ISDS mechanism.

The TPP investment chapter could also be used to protect the fossil fuel industry from climate regulations.

Cross-border investments may be structured to utilize the benefits under Canada's foreign investment promotion and protection agreements, investment chapters in Canada's free trade agreements and other bilateral investment treaties.

Chevron and other giant energy companies are demanding a TTIP investment chapter that will allow them to sue governments if environmental or other regulations interfere with their expected future profits by, for example, restricting oil and gas drilling, imposing pollution and oil spill controls or constraining the use of hydraulic fracking techniques to extract natural gas and oil from shale formations.

«The Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal's investment chapter would allow transnational corporations to challenge environmental laws that protect our air, land and water.

The U.S. Trade Representative's office will focus on pushing other Pacific countries to agree to the U.S. model for a TPP investment chapter — potentially the most environmentally hazardous and socially unfair TPP provision under negotiation.

In particular, regarding the environmental threat of investment chapters of the Pacific and Atlantic trade deals, Waren explained, «the investment tribunals are able to trump courts and trump democratic decisions if they find the business expectations of multinational corporations and rich investors have been thwarted... the purpose of an investment chapter is to stop effective climate regulation in the future.»

Investment chapters in the TPP and TTIP would allow firms to sue governments for millions or billions in money damages if environmental or public health regulations interfere with expected future profits.

Achmea casts serious doubts on the legality of CETA's investment chapter, which allows investors from one Party to submit to an arbitral tribunal a claim that the other Party has breached an obligation under CETA.

For example, in the case of CETA, Vietnam and EU - Singapore the inclusion of investment chapters has delayed negotiations by several years, has caused domestic discontent and tarnished the EU's international image.

However, negotiating free trade agreements that include investment chapters (FTIAs), resembling bilateral investment treaties (BITs), is a new and challenging experience for the EU.

Concluding a trade agreement without an investment chapter by the EU alone would have several advantages.

This is unfortunately not the case with the inclusion of investment chapters and ISDS into EU FTIAs.

Leading up to the conclusion of the first new generation of trade agreements, the Commission decided it did not get enough with its extensive foot in the door in international investment policy and claimed the entirety of these investment chapters as EU - only in its request for an Opinion.

This is nowhere more manifest than in the fierce debates about the inclusion of an investment chapter in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership currently being negotiated between the European Union and the United States.

Rather, the competence to include the «termination clause» (Art 9.10 EUSFTA) corresponds to the EU's competences which the Court established with regard to the investment chapter as such, ie exclusive as regards FDI, shared as regards other forms of investment (see paras 255f in conjunction with para 243).

A termination of additional BITs by Indonesia would ironically come at a time when many of Indonesia's neighbours such as Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Australia and New Zealand are negotiating the Trans - Pacific Partnership Agreement, a 12 - country multilateral trade and investment treaty which it is understood will likely include an Investment Chapter providing for recourse to arbitration.

The Investment Chapter of the CPTPP contains many of the standard protections provided to investors under comparable agreements.

It doesn't seem to change the fact that if the government has taken some form of discriminatory measure against you in the IP area, you can still sue the government under the investment chapter.»

A decision by the Federal Court of Canada should spell the end of the NAFTA renegotiation on the investment Chapter of NAFTA, and ignite a renegotiation of the investment chapters of the Canada - EU trade agreement and the CPATPP.