ISDS Case Map
US
While the United States considers a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Colombia, the human rights situation in the Magdalena Medio region of Colombia has deteriorated dramatically, culminating on the 17th of August with a massacre in the township of El Dorado.
The United States government has made it official that products made at the Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea will not be classified as “made in Korea” according to the terms of the South Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA).
Critics of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) gathered in Washington to voice concerns over the US’s stronghold on intellectual property rights.
US policymakers would be wise to re-evaluate the TPA, carefully separating the pros from the cons.
The government of Nepal has initiated preparation for trade talks with the country's two crucial trade partners -- India and the US.
In Vermont, Maine and other states, there's growing concern that free trade agreements could undermine states' authority in a host of areas, ranging from the regulation of groundwater extraction by bottled water companies, to negotiating lower prices for prescription drugs, to issuance of state approval for a takeover of an electric utility by a foreign-owned company.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp said a free-trade accord between Canada and Colombia that takes effect today puts the U.S. at a disadvantage and underscores the need to pass the nation’s own stalled agreements.
An aggressive lobbying and PR campaign aimed at defeating the proposed US free trade agreement with Korea, and costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, has amounted to nothing.
The United Steelworkers union (USW) said it strongly supported the US plan to move forward with arbitration.
Last week, a group of seven House Democrats, led by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), sought to have the 12-year data exclusivity period provided by the biosimilar approval pathway of the US' Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act excluded from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement
