Sentences with phrase «trade and investment treaty»

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.

Thus, despite providing for much needed clarity as to the scope of the CCP in light of «new generation» of EU trade and investment agreements, Opinion 2/15 appears to add new questions over the legal parameters applying to the substance and process of EU trade and investment treaty - making.

A modern trade and investment treaty touches the most basic elements of sovereignty.

This 4 - page fact sheet provides readers with background on the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), a 12 - country trade and investment treaty negotiation that began in 2008.

The Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a 12 - country trade and investment treaty negotiation that began in 2008.

With an agreement reached on the Trans Pacific Partnership, the 12 - member trade and investment treaty, opinions began swirling about what the deal means for the future of Canada.

Not exact matches

Because of the resistance of countries of the South at the INTO Ministerial Conference in Singapore in December 1996, the issue of the foreign - investment treaty was assigned to a working group «to examine the relationship between trade and investment».

For the most part, such treaties work well, and evidence shows that they increase cross border trade and investment.

This shift in global trade policy places China in the middle of a rivalry among competing potential trading blocks, including the Trans - Pacific Partnership Agreement that is currently being negotiated without China, the anticipated Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the United States and the European Union (EU), the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia that includes China, and even a potential China - EU investment trtrade policy places China in the middle of a rivalry among competing potential trading blocks, including the Trans - Pacific Partnership Agreement that is currently being negotiated without China, the anticipated Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the United States and the European Union (EU), the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia that includes China, and even a potential China - EU investment trTrade and Investment Partnership between the United States and the European Union (EU), the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia that includes China, and even a potential China - EU investmeInvestment Partnership between the United States and the European Union (EU), the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia that includes China, and even a potential China - EU investmentinvestment treaty.

Reviving tensions between the two coalition parties after Mr Cameron vetoed a treaty to help rescue the euro at this month's Brussels summit, Mr Huhne warned the isolationist approach favoured by Tory sceptics would be disastrous for British jobs and trade and foreign investment in this country.

«His threat to rip up existing treaties and impose new tariffs — even if there are limits to what can actually be accomplished under executive authority — would disrupt global supply chains, jeopardizing the integrated international trade system that has been the key foundation of decades of global growth and prosperity,» warned Stephen Rogers, an investment strategist at Investors Group, in a white paper released before Americans cast their ballots.

This year Dr Pachauri joined the New York investment fund Pegasus as a «strategic adviser», and was made chairman of the advisory board to the Asian Development Bank, strongly supportive of CDM trading, whose CEO warned that failure to agree a treaty at Copenhagen would lead to a collapse of the carbon market.

This was where the movement turned after two devastating failures: the fruitless effort for an international climate treaty at Copenhagen in 2009, and the death, shortly afterward, of cap - and - trade legislation in the U.S. Senate, despite enormous investments by mainstream environmental groups in these causes.

Whether a French corporation is seeking assistance in foreign investment opportunities in France, French trade relations, French investment abroad, French relations with the administration, Paris international treaties or transfer pricing, a Paris international business lawyer can provide guidance for the legal proceedings with the European Commission and other institutions.

All in all it is fair to conclude that the inclusion of ISDS and investment protection in EU trade agreements is causing enormous headaches for the Commission, it is tarnishing the EU's image as a reliable treaty partner and it causes domestic discontent.

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

European Union agreements such as CETA and the EU - Vietnam Free Trade Agreement appear to serve as viable examples of replacing traditional ISDS provisions with a bilateral investment court system, [21] providing a more impartial and independent process than investment treaty arbitration.

Quoted in INSIDE TRADE regarding a possible bilateral investment treaty between the United States and Brazil, February 15, 2008.

We also help governments strengthen their trade relationship with the US, which can involve securing free trade agreements, bilateral investment treaties or nuclear export agreements, as well as qualifying for and maintaining preferential trade benefits.

Blakes International Trade lawyers are industry leaders who have successfully represented clients in disputes arising under the World Trade Organization (WTO), North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a variety of bilateral and international trade and investment agreements and treaties, and in WTO retaliation proceedTrade lawyers are industry leaders who have successfully represented clients in disputes arising under the World Trade Organization (WTO), North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a variety of bilateral and international trade and investment agreements and treaties, and in WTO retaliation proceedTrade Organization (WTO), North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a variety of bilateral and international trade and investment agreements and treaties, and in WTO retaliation proceedTrade Agreement (NAFTA), a variety of bilateral and international trade and investment agreements and treaties, and in WTO retaliation proceedtrade and investment agreements and treaties, and in WTO retaliation proceedings.

Consulted with various individuals and business entities in connection with potential claims against foreign governments under bilateral investment and multilateral trade treaties

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.

Our litigation and dispute resolution team provides advice and representation in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in relation to company, commercial and contractual disputes; partnership and shareholder disputes; and professional negligence claims; We also have an established international arbitration practice focusing on trade, commerce and international investment treaties.

Investor State Disputes: Thousands of bilateral and multilateral investment treaties, including many recent free trade agreements, give those doing business outside their home country important substantive rights vis - à - vis the States hosting their investments.

As well, both the Assembly of First Nations and Métis Nation have made submissions to the Standing Committee on International Trade to request meaningful consultation, to note their concerns about investment treaties, and to seek out provisions that would ensure preferential treatment for Indigenous peoples.

In relation to international treaties, attorneys advise on World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, preferential trade regimes such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and bilateral investment treaties (BTrade Organization (WTO) rules, preferential trade regimes such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and bilateral investment treaties (Btrade regimes such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and bilateral investment treaties (BTrade Agreement (NAFTA) and bilateral investment treaties (BITs).

It will explore the WTO's interaction with different sources of international law, including regional trade agreements like the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), as well as Bilateral Investment Treaties and analyze relevant U.S. constitutional and statutory provisions concerning domestic and foreign ttrade agreements like the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), as well as Bilateral Investment Treaties and analyze relevant U.S. constitutional and statutory provisions concerning domestic and foreign tTrade Agreement (NAFTA), as well as Bilateral Investment Treaties and analyze relevant U.S. constitutional and statutory provisions concerning domestic and foreign tradetrade.

Select Books and Recent Law Review Articles: • Public Policy in International Economic Law: The ICESCR in Trade, Finance and Investment (Oxford University Press, 2015) • Necessity and National Emergency Clauses: Sovereignty in Modern Treaty Interpretation (Martinus Nijhoff, 2012) • ASEAN Integration and Philippine Treaties (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in ASEAN Integration through Law Series) • ASEAN Law and Regional Integration: Governance and the Rule of Law in Southeast Asia's Single Market (co-edited with David J. Cohen, Routledge, forthcoming) • International Commercial Arbitration for the Philippine Legal Profession (editor, University of the Philippines IILS Press, forthcoming) • Code of Professional Responsibility (USAID and Philippine Judicial Academy, 2007)

We have particular experience in dealing with international trade and commercial arbitrations, and investment treaty arbitrations.

• Diane A. Desierto, Regulatory Freedom and Control in the New ASEAN Investment Treaties, The Journal of World Investment and Trade (2015 Asia Special).

Thomas has acted in over 20 treaty cases and has an in - depth understanding of the commercial, regulatory and political factors that give rise to international trade and investment disputes.

This protection is now commonplace in investment treaties and trade deals, and it has become one of the most controversial aspects of ISDS.

Known as investor - state dispute settlement, or ISDS, it is written into a vast network of treaties that govern international trade and investment, including NAFTA and the Trans - Pacific Partnership, which Congress must soon decide whether to ratify.

In international investment treaty and commercial arbitrations in virtually every country in Central and South America under all major arbitral rules and institutions, including among others International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes («ICSID»), International Chamber of Commerce («ICC»), United Nations Commission on International Trade Law («UNCITRAL»), and International Centre for Dispute Resolution («ICDinvestment treaty and commercial arbitrations in virtually every country in Central and South America under all major arbitral rules and institutions, including among others International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes («ICSID»), International Chamber of Commerce («ICC»), United Nations Commission on International Trade Law («UNCITRAL»), and International Centre for Dispute Resolution («ICDInvestment Disputes («ICSID»), International Chamber of Commerce («ICC»), United Nations Commission on International Trade Law («UNCITRAL»), and International Centre for Dispute Resolution («ICDR»);

Our team is often called upon to provide counsel on the implications of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) rules, bilateral investment treaties (BITs), the Investment Canada Act, and foreign investment protection and promotion agreementinvestment treaties (BITs), the Investment Canada Act, and foreign investment protection and promotion agreementInvestment Canada Act, and foreign investment protection and promotion agreementinvestment protection and promotion agreements (FIPAs).

Foley Hoag has been the counsel of choice for sovereign states on issues such as international treaties, international investment law and dispute resolution, delimitation of maritime and land boundaries, sovereign and diplomatic privileges and immunities, international environmental law, the use of force and the law of armed conflict, international trade and sanctions, and human rights.»