ISDS Case Map
Bilateral deal-making involving governments of Latin America, the US and Canada.
last update: May 2012
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Americas
Bilateral deal-making involving governments of Latin America, the US and Canada.
See also
- Americas
- ALBA / TCP
- Brazil
- Canada
- Canada-Colombia
- Canada-India
- Canada-Korea
- Chile
- Colombia
- CPTPP
- EU-CAN
- EU-Canada
- EU-Central America
- EU-Mercosur
- EU-US
- FTAA
- IBSA
- Japan-Mexico
- Mercosur
- Mexico
- North & South America
- Pacific Alliance
- Peru
- Uruguay
- US-Andean countries
- US-Australia
- US-Bahrain
- US-Chile
- US-China
- US-Colombia
- US-DR-CAFTA
- US-India
- US-Korea
- US-Malaysia
- US-Morocco
- US-Oman
- US-Panama
- US-Peru
- US-SACU
- US-Taiwan
- US-Thailand
- US-UAE
- USMCA (NAFTA)
The US Trade Representative (USTR) has announced that a mini trade deal between the US and Ecuador, originally signed in December 2020, has come into effect.
Lasso will meet with López Obrador in Mexico to request the entry of Ecuador to the Pacific Alliance
Ecuador will propose the free trade agreement with Mexico, with the purpose that, in the shortest possible time, Ecuador can enter the Pacific Alliance
Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) allow foreign capitalists to run roughshod over the rights of Ecuadorians.
Ecuador wants to negotiate a free trade agreement with the United States, its main trading partner, as its neighbors Colombia and Peru have already done.
The conclusions of the study, commissioned by Congress, could lead to a dry period for new trade pacts.
President Joe Biden is about to lose one of his main tools for getting trade agreements passed in Congress, dimming the outlook for deals already in the works with UK and Kenya.
Peru and Nicaragua began the first round of negotiations to form a free trade agreement.
Like its predecessor, the Biden administration has largely dispensed with the idea of free trade as a goal in and of itself.
President Joe Biden’s administration is setting up its trade policy to prioritize enforcement of existing commitments by the US’s partners over negotiating more deals to open new export markets.
How likely are the two countries to engage in talks for a broader trade agreement in the near future, and how would that differ from the phase-one treaty?
Referenced sites
Trrade for People and Planet
We want trade deals to be democratic, to benefit working people and the environment. We need to revolutionize the trade model and create a new global economy...
US-Japan Business Council
USJBC has been pushing for a US-Japan FTA
US State Department Office of Bilateral Trade Affairs
The Office of Bilateral Trade Affairs ensures that the overall foreign policy goals of the U.S. Government are factored into the development of U.S. bilatera...
USTR National Trade Estimate Report
Annual assessment of obstacles to US trade interests in foreign countries
