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North America Free Trade Agreement | US-Mexico-Canada Agreement

Free trade: the hidden costs to our oceans and climate
17-Nov-2015 Huffington Post
With almost half of our carbon emissions and over 90 percent of our planet’s warming being absorbed by the ocean, the cheap goods on our grocery store shelves might not be such a good deal after all.
What a new NAFTA complaint can tell us about the TPP
16-Nov-2015 AFL-CIO
A coalition of U.S. and Mexican labor and civil society groups are taking an unprecedented legal approach to protect workers’ rights that will test the strength of labor protections in international trade agreements.
NAFTA panel could rule on investor-state challenge targeting Ontario this month
22-Oct-2015 Rabble
Billionaire T. Boone Pickens is suing Canada through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for $700 million in future lost profit.
Lessons from NAFTA for the TPP
21-Oct-2015 SUNS
There are many lessons from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that are relevant to the current debate over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Legendary Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens is suing Ontario for $700 million over wind power
16-Oct-2015 Financial Post
Pickens is using his rights under the North American Free Trade Agreement to bring claims against the Canadian province of Ontario.
Libre-échange : des effets difficiles à mesurer sur l’emploi
7-Oct-2015 Le Monde
Les conséquences des accords multilatéraux sur le commerce mondial et l’économie sont loin de faire consensus.
Murray Rankin v. Canada
30-Sep-2015 Focus Online
Rankin acted on behalf of an American mining corporation in its successful bid to sue Canada using NAFTA.
NAFTA and FIPA could derail the COP21 Paris climate change agreement, report claims
25-Sep-2015 National Observer
Ahead of the Paris climate change talks, a new report argues that international trade deal contracts must be amended to ward off lawsuits that could potentially scuttle any agreements reached on climate change.
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Renegotiating NAFTA by the back door
23-Sep-2015 rabble.ca
For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to address some of the deal’s most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor-state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent-wide strategy for auto investment and production.
Resisting the ‘law of greed’
11-Sep-2015 Green Agenda
There has been an explosive increase of cases of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). Modern investor-state disputes often revolve around public policy measures and implicate sensitive issues such as health and environmental protection
NAFTA impact: your Oreo cookies made in Mexico, not Chicago
10-Sep-2015 People’s World
Starting soon, as a result of the firm’s drive for higher profits and lower wages, your Oreo cookies will be made in Mexico, not Chicago. And it’s all thanks to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
The Trans­Pacific Partnership: a neoliberal escalation
2-Sep-2015 Flush the TPP
The outcome of such a process, based on what we know so far, is what one might reasonably expect: “a wishlist of the 1%–a worldwide corporate power”.
How regional trade agreements can spark a fight over Feta cheese
26-Aug-2015 Fortune
While the European Union and Canada agree that Feta cheese must come from Greece, the deal underscores the problems with regional trade deals not giving other countries a say.
Disastrous TPP being pushed to wrap up by mid September
25-Aug-2015 Economy in Crisis
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is not dead. Even though talks failed last month in Hawaii and the 12 countries couldn’t come to an agreement, the last few legislative days left are being used up wisely.
Prosperity undermined
23-Aug-2015 Public Citizen
The status quo trade model’s 21-year record of massive U.S. trade deficits, job loss and wage suppression.
Feds appealing NAFTA tribunal decision of Nova Scotia quarry project
20-Aug-2015 CBC
Canada is appealing a potentially expensive decision from a NAFTA tribunal, arguing the tribunal "exceeded its jurisdiction" when it upheld a claim from a New Jersey concrete company, Bilcon, that it was entitled to compensatory damages.
As decision in Mesa v. Canada looms, investor and all three NAFTA parties weigh in on significance of Bilcon
15-Aug-2015 Investment Arbitration Reporter
Following Canada’s loss this March in a NAFTA dispute, Bilcon v. Canada, that decision has prompted a new round of submissions in a separate dispute, Mesa Power Group LLC v. Canada.
A losing proposition
5-Aug-2015 CCPA
The failure of Canadian ISDS policy at home and abroad.
TransCanada may recoup costs from US if Obama rejects Keystone
4-Aug-2015 Bloomberg
A provision in the North American Free Trade Agreement would let the Canadian company TransCanada Corp. recoup some of the $2.4 billion spent on its Keystone XL project
Infographic: Lessons from NAFTA for the Trans-Pacific Partnership
10-Jul-2015 IPS
Two decades of high costs for Mexico’s agriculture, economy, families, and environment