CAFTA
US - Central America Free Trade Agreement
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21-Sep-2018 TeleSur
Costa Rica wins case against investors’ beach front property
ICSID tribunal rules Costa Rica was in its right to stop a tourist construction project on the Pacific coast that violated environmental laws.
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12-Jun-2018 Listin Diario
Dr-Cafta productores perderían US$189 millones
En el caso del arroz el país que resultaría más perjudicado sería República Dominicana, donde los productores perderían hasta US$74 millones.
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24-May-2018 Prensa Libre
Estado de Guatemala se expone a nuevo arbitraje internacional
Guatemala se expone a un nuevo arbitraje internacional con posibilidad de una demanda millonaria debido a la suspensión de operaciones del proyecto minero El Tambor, propiedad de Exmingua.
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24-May-2018 BN Americas
Miner planning US$300mn Guatemala arbitration
Exmingua is planning to launch arbitration proceedings against Guatemala following the suspension of its Tambor gold project.
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5-Mar-2018 Feedstuffs
USDA trade undersecretary bullish on Central America
Trade mission to Guatemala yields fruitful meetings with conservative estimates of $30 million in new sales.
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16-Feb-2018 Stratfor
Washington may draw a bull’s-eye on Central American trade pact
US trade negotiators could move to renegotiate aspects of the Central American-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement by 2019.
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31-Jan-2018 La Prensa
Tratado comercial entre Centroamérica y Estados Unidos será modernizado
En la revisión enfocada a la modernización se podría abordar aspectos de el impacto que ha tenido este acuerdo.
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19-Oct-2017 Upside Down World
Being a trade unionist in Guatemala will get you killed
A chapter on labor issues within CAFTA was to provide an improved environment for labor rights. But the Guatemalan state has consistently failed to implement these protections.
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5-Oct-2017 Just Style
US wants to update Latin America pacts next after NAFTA
Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer pointed to the need to modernise agreements with Peru, Colombia, Panama and Chile, as well as the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).
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7-Jul-2017 ICTSD
CAFTA - DR: laudo a favor de Guatemala en disputa con Estados Unidos sobre estándares laborales
Los tres miembros del Panel Arbitral del Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Centroamérica, Estados Unidos y República Dominicana emitieron un laudo a favor del gobierno de Guatemala en la disputa con Estados Unidos sobre el vínculo entre estándares laborales y comercio.
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6-Jul-2017 AFL-CIO
U.S. trade policy fails workers
This decision drives home the fact that U.S. trade deals do not protect workers. In truth, this failure is by design—labor chapters were not meant to work efficiently or effectively.
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3-Jul-2017 People’s World
After nine years, arbitrators bounce AFL-CIO complaint on Guatemala labor conditions
“The panel’s decision flies in the face of common sense. Guatemala’s failure to protect its workers and enforce its own laws is apparent to nearly everyone except the arbitrators.”
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28-Jun-2017 Politico
Guatemala off the hook in CAFTA labor case
The U.S., for the most part, lost its first challenge of another country’s adherence to the labor rules under a trade deal.
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19-Apr-2017 Reuters
El Salvador freezes OceanaGold bank accounts, assets over $8 mln payment
El Salvador froze bank accounts and assets belonging to OceanaGold Corp after the mining company refused to pay the country $8 million as mandated by an international court.
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3-Apr-2017 Politico
Guatemala agrees to early poultry tariff elimination
Guatemala has agreed to eliminate its 12.5 percent tariff on U.S. fresh, frozen and chilled poultry products under the U.S.-DR-CAFTA free trade agreement
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2-Mar-2017 TeleSUR
TLC entre El Salvador y Estados Unidos cumple 11 años
El controversial tratado cuento con muchos adeptos y detractores. El resultado, a grandes rasgos, es el fortalecimiento de la figura de Estados Unidos en la región.
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17-Nov-2016 In Homeland Security
What will the Trump presidency mean for Latin America?
There has been no overarching ‘Latin America’ policy under the outgoing administration. This overall situation will largely remain the same under the Trump administration.
