ISDS Case Map
US
Suzanne Paquin Leylekian regularly imports materials from Finland, China and other countries with which Canada has no free trade agreement.
The EU has been advocating an end of this ban as part of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations. The EU wants to be able to import US oil for energy security reasons and set global rules for energy markets.
It is a trade deal that seeks to buttress the dominant role of the United States in shaping the political and economic world order by fending off a formidable challenger like China. At its very core, TPPA is geopolitical.
The Obama administration could partly fix a flaw in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement through separate negotiations on the proposed Trade in Services Agreement.
Persistent disagreements between the United States and the European Union over the treatment of personal data threaten to undermine international standards.
South Africa has resolved a trade row with the US which threatened to throw South Africa out of its preferential trade programme over its refusal to allow the importation of American chickens.
Canadian company TransCanada's announcement that it will sue the American people for $15 billion perfectly illustrates how today's corporate-empowering trade policies threaten the way democracy is supposed to work.
‘The idea that some trade agreement should force us to overheat the planet’s atmosphere is, quite simply, insane.’
The Trans Pacific Partnership will make it easier for businesses that are based here to move production offshore.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce came out in support of the Obama administration’s free-trade deal with Pacific rim nations.
