North American Free Trade Agreement: U.S. Experience with Environment, Labor, and Investment Dispute Settlement Cases : Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Trade, Committee on Ways and Means, House of RepresentativesThe Office, 2001 - 67 pages |
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Page 3 - The Honorable Philip M. Crane Chairman, Subcommittee on Trade Committee on Ways and Means House of Representatives Dear Mr.
Page 49 - Thereafter, any monetary enforcement assessment shall be no greater than .007 percent of total trade in goods between the Parties during the most recent year for which data are available.
Page 3 - ... otherwise ensure the effective implementation of the binational panel review process under chapter 19 of the Agreement regarding final antidumping and countervailing duty determinations; and (2) the Government of such country exchanges notes with the United States providing for the entry into force of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation and the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation for that country and the United States.
Page 55 - Mexicana), and the Federation of Unions of Goods and Services Companies of Mexico...
Page 49 - Article 34(5)(b), except where benefits may be suspended under paragraph 2(a), any complaining Party or Parties may suspend, in accordance with Annex 36B, the application to the Party complained against of NAFTA benefits in an amount no greater than that sufficient to collect the monetary enforcement assessment.
Page 3 - When the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect on January 1, 1994...
Page 54 - Article 10(5)(b). 3. Each Party shall consider prohibiting the export to the territories of the other Parties of a pesticide or toxic substance whose use is prohibited within the Party's territory. When a Party adopts a measure prohibiting or severely restricting the use of a pesticide or toxic substance in its territory, it shall notify the other Parties of the measure, either directly or through an appropriate. international organization.
Page 55 - Human Rights Watch/Americas, International Labor Rights Fund, and the National Association of Democratic Lawyers filed the fifth submission with the US NAO on June 13, 1996.
Page 4 - A more detailed description of our scope and methodology is contained in appendix I. We conducted our work from June 2004 through August 2005 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards.
Page 5 - Convention; or (b) an arbitrator or international ad hoc arbitral tribunal established under the Arbitration Rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. The parties to the dispute may agree in writing to modify these Rules. The arbitral awards shall be final and binding on both Parties to the dispute. Article 9.