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The regulation of foreign direct investment in Mexico and the North American Free Trade Agreement

Nadeau, Christian - 1992

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Impediments to industrial policy : overcoming path dependency in Canada's post staples transition

Rahnema, Saeed; Howlett, Michael - In: Journal of Australian political economy (2002), pp. 114-135

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Shedding light on Article 1110 of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) concerning expropriations : an environmental case study

Gudofsky, Jason L. - In: Northwestern journal of international law & business 21 (2000) 1, pp. 243-315

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Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico since the Approval of NAFTA

Cuevas, Alfredo; Messmacher, Miguel; Werner, Alejandro - 2005

Cross-country panel data are used to assess the effect of free-trade agreements on flows of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Free-trade agreements are found to have a significant positive effect on FDI flows, and free-trade agreements are found to matter more for the smaller members of the...

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Reforming the NAFTA Investment Regime

Van Harten, Gus - 2010

The discussion in this paper elaborates a tiered set of reforms designed to (1) protect foreign investment, while (2) affording appropriate policy space for governments to develop and regulate their economies in a sustainable manner and (3) ensuring equitable governance of investment disputes...

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Reciprocidad De Inversión Extranjera, Análisis De Su Afectación Al TLCAN (Foreign Investment Reciprocity an Analysis of the Effects in the NAFTA)

Ramirez Marquez, Juan A. - 2011

Certain countries have considered to condition for reciprocity the foreign investment released to the countries from where the foreign investment came from. Such situation might be discriminatory and violates international law. While it is true, the countries may restrict foreign investment....

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NAFTA Chapter Eleven at Fifteen : Contributions to a Systemic Approach in Investment Arbitration

Puig, Sergio - 2011

This article discusses the development and main contributions of NAFTA to international investment law in the last fifteen years. After analyzing the context of the negotiations, the article examines the contributions of NAFTA to the substantive law applicable to foreign investors. The paper...

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Metalclad, Methanex and Chemtura : 10 Years of Environmental Issues in NAFTA Investment Arbitrations

Asteriti, Alessandra - 2012

The North American Free Trade Agreement (‘NAFTA' or ‘the Agreement'), ratified in 1994, is the first free trade agreement to openly incorporate environmental provisions. Its ratification engendered a sustained debate on the effects of trade on environmental degradation that has hardly abated...

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The New EU Investment Treaties : Convergence towards the NAFTA Model as the New Plurilateral Model BIT Text?

Lavranos, Nikos - 2013

The EU is about to conclude an FTA with Canada (CETA) which includes an investment chapter. A similar free trade agreement (FTA) will soon be concluded by the EU with Singapore and India. Moreover, the EU has obtained a negotiation mandate to conclude an FTA with Japan; very soon FTA with the US...

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Increasing Host State Regulatory Flexibility in Defending Investor-State Disputes : The Evolution of U.S. Approaches from NAFTA to the TPP

Gantz, David A. - 2017

Building on the negotiation of U.S. bilateral investment treaties beginning in the early 1980s, U.S. free trade agreements incorporating specific host-state obligations to foreign investors and binding investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) have been a feature of U.S. trade and investment...

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