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Premier Danny Williams says the Newfoundland and Labrador government will not share the $130-million settlement the federal government made with AbitibiBowater.
A new online publication by the United Nations trade arm explores alternative methods that governments and international investors may use to resolve increasingly frequent disputes that must currently be handled through lengthy international arbitration.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Japan aim to strike a deal on liberalization of trade in services, and investment next year for incorporation into their two-year-old free trade deal, according to the draft of a joint statement for next week's meeting of their economic ministers in Vietnam.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo advised President Aquino against deciding hastily on the case involving the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 (NAIA-3), warning the government could be at a disadvantage.
A legal analysis of the challenge launched by Philip Morris International found the company to be both unjustified and unreasonable in its opposition to Uruguay's new tobacco packaging laws.
Earlier this week, the Sierra Club, Public Citizen, Institute for Policy Studies, Friends of the Earth and Earthjustice released a new report entitled: "Investment rules in trade agreements: Top 10 changes to build a pro-labor, pro-community and pro-environment Trans-Pacific Partnership."
French media conglomerate Vivendi (VIV.FR) Tuesday said the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, or ICSID, reaffirmed its original ruling and financial award in favour of the company in a long-running dispute with Argentina.
In a decision with implications for the national sovereignty of member states under US trade pacts, a World Bank tribunal has approved a Canadian mining company's controversial lawsuit against the government of El Salvador.
An international arbitration tribunal in The Hague has dismissed an objection by Italian investors claiming that SA's black economic empowerment requirements represented expropriation and violated the country's bilateral investment treaties with Italy and the Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union.
Chevron Corp urged a US federal appeals court not to force it into Ecuador's courts, but to allow it to go to international arbitration, to defend a $27.4 bn lawsuit alleging its oilfields polluted the Amazon rainforest and sickened thousands of Ecuadorians.
