The first decade of NAFTA : : the future of free trade in North America / / edited by Kevin C. Kennedy.

• Superior document: International Law and Development ; 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Kennedy, Kevin C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ardsley, New York : : Transnational Publishers,, [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: International Law and Development ; 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (674 pages)

This volume provides practitioners, academics and students with the first definitive coverage of NAFTA investment arbitration. Given the level of foreign direct investment within the NAFTA countries, the issue of redress for states in investment cases is a major one. The state dispute settlement mechanisms within NAFTAs Chapter Eleven are recognized as a model worthy of close examination. The experts and scholars who have contributed to this work present a comprehensive overview of the first ten years of practice in the area of investment disputes under the NAFTA provision. As in any nascent undertaking, the successes, failures and controversies that have been the experience of the state parties involved in NAFTA, are keenly reflected in the Chapter 11 cases. It is in these experiences, as described by in the chapters of this timely volume, that the readers will find substantive and procedural insights into an emerging new area of public international economic law. Many see the workings of the NAFTA agreement, particularly Chapter 11, as a Rorschach test for how state parties can approach and effectively adjudicate investment disputes. For this reason all practitioners and scholars concerned with international trade and foreign direct investment issues should consult this book. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Table of Contents

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The First Decade of Free Trade in North America, Kevin C. Kennedy -- -- Part I: Trade in Goods -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Rules of Origin, Peter M. Zubrin -- Chapter 2: NAFTA Chapter 9 and the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, Maureen Irish -- Part II: Trade in the Agricultural Sector -- Introduction -- Chapter 3: Managing Trade in Agriculture in North America, Raj Bhala -- Chapter 4: Agricultural Trade and NAFTA: The Case of Mexico, Antonio Yunez-Naude, Fernando Barceinas Paredes -- Chapter 5: Against the Grain: U.S.-Canada Wheat Trade Dispute, Catherine Curtiss -- Part III: Trade in Services -- Introduction -- Chapter 6: The Canadian Preoccupation with NAFTA's Impact on Health Services: A Serious Iissue, a Non-Iissue or Something in Between?, J. Anthony VanDuzer -- The First Decade of NAFTA -- Chapter 7: Financial Services Regulation After NAFTA, Michael P. Malloy -- Chapter 8: Mexico's Changing Energy Regulatory Framework: -- Liberalization Under NAFTA Chapter 6?, Eduardo Núñez-Rodríguez -- -- Part IV: Investment and the Settlement of Investment Disputes -- Introduction -- -- Chapter 9: Constitutional Challenges to NAFTA -- Chapter 11 -- A Mexican Perspective -- Santiago González-Luna -- Chapter 10: Distinguishing Expropriation and Regulation under -- NAFTA Chapter 11: Making Explicit the Link to Property, Céline Lévesque -- Chapter 11: The Potential for Overlap in NAFTA Chapter 11 Obligations, Todd Weiler -- -- Part V: Trade and the Environment -- Introduction -- Chapter 12: The Environmental Impact of NAFTA on Mexico, Alberto Székely -- Chapter 13: NAFTA and The Environment: Lessons for the Americas -- Mónica Araya;. Chapter 14: The Kyoto Rift: Trade Law Implications of Canada's -- Kyoto Implementation Strategy in an Era of Canadian-U.S. Environmental Divergence, Craig Forcese -- -- Part VI: Trade Remedies -- Introduction -- Chapter 15: Continental Conversations: Remand of Binational -- Panel Decisions Under NAFTA Chapter 19, Chi Carmody -- Chapter 16: NAFTA Chapter 19 and Safeguards Relief from a Mexican Perspective, Alejandro Gómez-Strozzi -- Chapter 17: Chapters 19 and 20 of NAFTA: An Overview and Analysis of NAFTA Dispute Settlement, Patrick F.J. Macrory -- Part VII: Beyond NAFTA: The Future of Free Trade in North America -- Introduction -- Chapter 18: The Evolution of FTA Investment Provisions: From NAFTA to the United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement -- David A. Gantz -- Chapter 19: Whither NAFTA in the New Security Environment?, Gustavo Vega-Cánovas -- .Chapter 20: Oh, Those Irritating Trade Irritants: Seeking to Eliminate Trade Remedy Protections from the North American Economic Space, Alan S. Alexandroff -- Chapter 21: Closing Remarks -- M. Peter McPherson -- Part VIII: Presentations by Government Representatives -- -- Address by Randle Wilson, Director, Strategic Trade Policy, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada -- Address by Juan Bosco Martí, Chief of Staff for the Undersecretary -- for North America, Mexico Ministry of Foreign Relations -- Remarks by Peter Allgeier, Deputy United States Trade Representative -- Office of the United States Trade Representative -- Biographies -- Index.