NAFTA, free trade and foreign investment in the Americas in a nutshell / by Ralph H. Folsom, Professor of Law, University of San Diego.
2014
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Title
NAFTA, free trade and foreign investment in the Americas in a nutshell / by Ralph H. Folsom, Professor of Law, University of San Diego.
Published
St. Paul, MN : West Academic Publishing, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Call Number
KDZ944 .F653 2014
Edition
Fifth edition.
Spine Title
NAFTA
ISBN
0314290265
9780314290267
9780314290267
Description
XIX, 572 pages ; 19 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)874098782
Note
Includes index.
Series
Record Appears in
Table of Contents
Preface
iii
Acknowledgments
v
Web Resources
vii
Table Of Cases
xv
Boundaries Over Time
xvii
NAFTAJ Free Trade and Foreign Investment in the Americas Timeline
1
ch. 1
Pre-NAFTA
5
Canada and the United States
6
Mexico and the United States
9
Merging Economies
14
Different Legal Traditions
17
The Private Sector
21
Conclusion
23
ch. 2
CUSFTA
25
Core Commitments[—]Federalism, Supremacy and Nondiscrimination
26
Trade in Goods
29
Tariffs and Quotas
30
The Origin of Goods
32
Product Standards
36
Free Trade Exceptions
37
Canadian Cultural Industries Exclusion
39
Canadian Cultural Industries Exclusion[—]U.S. Responses
43
Procurement
45
Temporary Import Restraints
46
Wine, Beer and Spirits
47
Energy
49
Motor Vehicles
50
Services
51
Financial Services
54
Foreign Investment
56
Movement of Business Persons
59
CUSFTA Dispute Settlement
60
Chapter 18 Dispute Settlement
61
Arbitration Decisions under Chapter 18
64
Chapter 19 Dispute Settlement
66
Binational Panel and Extraordinary Challenge Committee Decisions under Chapter 19
71
Softwood Lumber Dispute
73
ch. 3
Getting to NAFTA, The Peso Crash
75
Ratifying NAFTA
76
Interpreting NAFTA
78
NAFTA, the Uruguay Round WTO and Other International Agreements
80
NAFTA Chapters and WTO Agreements
82
The Peso Crash, A Common Currency?
85
ch. 4
Goods
89
Tariffs and Customs
90
Impact on Maquiladoras
93
Regulatory and Tax Treatment, Quotas
95
Rules of Origin
96
Regional Value Content
100
Textiles and Apparel
104
Electronics
105
Exporting from Mexico to Latin America, Europe and Japan
106
Proof of Origin
107
Procurement
109
Motor Vehicles
112
Energy Goods
116
State Monopolies and Enterprises
120
Agricultural Goods
122
Food Standards (SPS)
125
Product and Service Standards-Related Measures (SRM)
128
Exceptions to Free Trade
133
Temporary Import Restraints (Escape Clauses)
135
The Corn Broom Case
136
Special Escape Clauses
138
ch. 5
Services
141
Service Provider Rights
142
Licensing and Certification
143
Foreign Legal Consultants
145
Land Transportation
147
Enhanced and Basic Telecommunications
150
General Exceptions
154
Financial services
155
Treatment of Financial Services Providers
159
Financial Services Dispute Settlement
163
NAFTA Business Visas
164
Business Visitors
166
Traders and Investors
167
Intra-company Transferees
168
Professionals
169
ch. 6
Foreign Investment
171
NAFTA Investment Rights
172
Treatment of Foreign Investors and Investments
174
Expropriation
178
Foreign Investment Law Exceptions and Reservations, The Environment
179
Arbitration of Foreign Investor-State Disputes
180
Arbitration Procedures, Appeals and Remedies
183
Foreign Investor Claims Against States under NAFTA
186
Metalclad
187
Ethyl and Methanex
188
Loewen
190
Pope and Talbot
191
S.D. Myers
192
Mondev
192
Glamis
193
Corn Syrup Sweeteners
194
AbitibiBowater
194
Apotex
195
Exxon/Mobil
195
Other NAFTA/CAFTA Claims of Note
196
Summary
197
ch. 7
Intellectual Property
199
Intellectual Property Rights in Controversy
200
General Obligations
202
Counterfeiting
204
Gray Market Trading
205
Patents
207
Copyrights
210
Trademarks
212
Trade Secrets
214
ch. 8
Dispute Settlement
217
Chapter 19[—]Antidumping and Countervailing Duties, Binational Panels
218
Selecting Panels[—]Conflicts of Interest
221
Standards of Review[—]Judge Wilkey Dissents
224
Mexico and Chapter 19
228
The Tomatoes Dispute
230
Chapter 20 Intergovernmental Dispute Settlement
231
Chapter 20 Arbitrations
235
Private Commercial Disputes
236
ch. 9
The Environment
239
NAFTA Provisions on the Environment
240
The North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation
241
Article 13 Reports
243
Article 14 Citizen and NGO Submissions
244
Factual Records
246
Environmental Council of Ministers
248
Environmental Arbitrations, Monetary Penalties
248
Summary
249
The Mexico-United States Border Environmental Cooperation Agreement
250
ch. 10
Labor
253
The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation
254
The NAALC Commission and Secretariat
256
Citizen, Union and NGO Submissions, NAO Reports
256
Ministerial Consultations, Expert Reports
257
Limited Labor Law Enforcement Arbitrations, Monetary Penalties
258
Summary
259
Labor Law Enforcement Submissions[—]Union Organizing
260
NAO Submission Strategies
266
The Pregnancy Discrimination Case
267
Trade Adjustment Assistance
271
ch. 11
Free Trade and Foreign Investment in the Americas
277
Chile, Fast Track and Bilateral Free Trade Agreements
278
U.S. Free Trade and Foreign Investment Agreements in the Americas
279
U.S. Free Trade and Foreign Investment Agreements[—]NAFTA Plus and Minus
280
Free Trade and Foreign Investment in the Americas
283
Cuba
287
Quebec and NAFTA
288
Conclusion
290
Appendix I. North American Free Trade Agreement (1994)
291
Appendix II. North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (1994)
505
Appendix III. North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (1994)
537
Index
563