There have been 32 cases under Chapter 11 since NAFTA came into effect in 1994. During the arbitration practices - the tribunals provided new interpretation on some traditional concepts. Meanwhile, different tribunals interpreted some substantial standards in different ways, which reveals the...

Cross-border investment disputes have supplanted trade disputes as the main focus of legal actions under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), according to this study. The author finds a growing number of these investment disputes entail challenges by American investors against...

This short note examines the 2010 decision by a panel constituted under Chapter 19 of the North American Free Trade Agreement in ‘Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip In Coils From Mexico: Final Results of 2004/2005 Antidumping Review’. The case concerns the application of the so-called...

This paper evaluates the influence of diverse U.S. agricultural interest groups on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Under NAFTA, licenses and quotas that restricted agricultural trade between Mexico and the United States were converted to tariffs in January 1994 and all tariffs...

This paper evaluates the influence of diverse U.S. agricultural interest groups on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Under NAFTA, licenses and quotas that restricted agricultural trade between Mexico and the United States were converted to tariffs in January 1994 and all tariffs...