ISDS Case Map
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The United States has asked Sri Lanka, ranked high for software piracy in Asia, to better enforce intellectual property rights and also lift restrictions on American imports like genetically modified food.
Many observers say such bilateral deals risk seriously weakening any Copenhagen agreement by allowing the idea of a global limit on greenhouse gas emissions to be abandoned.
"For Europe, the deal with Korea was easy. The US had already negotiated a trade pact of its own that was ready to go in 2006. Details of the EU-Korea treaty are nearly identical, so it's obvious the Europeans just Xeroxed the US-Korea pact and will now walk off with the spoils," write a US business journal.
President Barack Obama faced increased pressure on Thursday to win approval of a free trade deal with South Korea after the European Union locked up its own pact with Asia's third-largest market.
US Ambassador to India Timothy Roemer has said that he is hopeful that a bilateral investment treaty between US and India will be signed by end of the year.
The United States is beginning to lay the initial groundwork for talks to forge a free trade agreement with Southeast Asia, ahead of President Barack Obama’s maiden trip to the region.
An influential Republican Senator has announced to introduce a legislation in US Senate next week for free trade agreement negotiations between the United States and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Mexico has suffered another loss in a series of investor-state arbitral disputes involving its sugar industry.
The case for a free trade agreement with the United States will get another nudge this week when more than 100 leaders from both countries will take part in discussion hosted by the United States-New Zealand Partnership Forum on strengthening the economic relationship.
Did officials of Drummond Co, a US coal operation, play a role in the deaths of at least two men in Colombia? US and European labor leaders are watching this case closely and pointing to it as an example of why they object to the United States' proposed free-trade agreement with Colombia.
