ISDS Case Map
NAFTA | USMCA
NAFTA 2.0 would effectively tie the US Congress’ hands in the struggle against rising drug prices.
The USMCA most closely reflects US IP laws, subjecting the US to almost no revisions of its current domestic intellectual property laws.
We can stop NAFTA II and replace corporate trade with a new model that raises working conditions and protects the environment.
With the US as the centerpiece, the TPP would have given the country a more significant stake in Asia and the Pacific in much the same way as NAFTA did in America.
The outcome of the “Trump moment” is likely, for all its protectionist rhetoric, to end up further legitimating free trade.
Investment treaties with ISDS provisions make it hard to tax foreign firms and worsen human rights and labor practices.
Westmoreland Coal is suing Canada because it did not receive a transition payment following Alberta's coal phaseout plan. For the province, coal mining companies have no role to play in the energy transition.
Final text weakens and nullifies protections against work discrimination.
Sector agreements signed between China and Canada could be rolled into a broader free trade agreement down the road — meaning that sectoral negotiations could lay the groundwork for comprehensive talks.
The Intellectual Property Chapter of the revised NAFTA, rebranded by the Trump Administration USMCA, includes provisions that threaten to undermine critical efforts towards affordable health care and medicine.
